SHARP 2008

Published by Nicola Smith | Filed under Uncategorized

I spent much of last week at the SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) annual conference held at Oxford Brookes University. The theme of the conference was Teaching and Text and there were a wide variety of responses. I really enjoyed the conference, the lovely thing about SHARP is the range of people who come, I chatted to librarians, archivists, historians, literary scholars and cultural historians. I took part in a panel organised by Toni Weller on behalf of LIHG (Library & Information History Group), our title was Searching for culture: etiquette, self-education & the aspirant classes. Toni and I were joined by Lauren Christos from Florida International University.

We were not the only LIHG members contributing, Peter Hoare, formerly the Librarian of the University of Nottingham spoke about libraries for the English visitors to Florence and Sarah Bromage from the Sapphire Project based at Napier University in Edinburgh spoke about her work on the Wayzgoose Project.