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Previous article FreeSociety InformationNews, Programs, Publications, and AwardsFull TextPDF Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreNewsBibliography Week 2021From 25 to 29 January 2021, the Bibliographical Society of America celebrated Bibliography Week with a series of events designed to demonstrate bibliographical practice and its relevance to interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. The week’s activities concluded with the Annual Meeting and New Scholars Program, and all events were held online due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. All of the events listed below are now available for viewing on the Society’s YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheBibliographicalSocietyofAmerica/).Between Monday and Thursday of Bibliography Week, the Society hosted a series of four virtual panels demonstrating the usefulness and relevance of bibliography for scholars, librarians, booksellers, collectors, and the bookish community at large. Entitled “Both/And: Bibliography in Action,” this series was organized around the premise that bibliographical study and analysis require the ability to closely analyze the macro and the micro details of the material text and the ability to situate individual examples within broader media and other cultural ecosystems. In the practice of bibliography, this is never either/or; it is always both/and. This program highlighted scholars from across disciplines and professions who put this dual practice into action, engaging newcomers and experts alike.In panels held Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the moderators and panelists looked together at a single textual object, making connections between physical features (for example paper, typeface, binding, marginalia), provenance, and the broader historical contexts in which these objects were first made and have since survived to the present. Thursday’s panel, “Reproduction & the Mesoamerican Book,” focused on a series of textual objects that have appeared in different media forms through time, demonstrating the overlap between bibliography and media studies and exploring relationships between form, context, and content. “Both/And: Bibliography in Action,” included the following sessions:¶ Monday, 25 January: Phillis Wheatley’s Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral (1773). Moderated by Jonathan Senchyne, with panelists Ashley Cataldo, Brigitte Fielder, and Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. Co-sponsored by Pirages Fine Books and Hindman Auctioneers.¶ Tuesday, 26 January: The Zamorano Press and Printing in Mexican California. Moderated by Kirsten Silva Gruesz, with panelists Gerald W. Cloud, Gary F. Kurutz, and Theresa Salazar. Co-sponsored by Getmans Virtual Book Fair and viaLibri.net.¶ Wednesday, 27 January: A Picture of Slavery for Youth: Creating Young Abolitionists. Moderated by Dorothy J. Berry, with panelists Krystal Appiah, Jesse Erickson, and Deborah De Rosa. Sponsored by the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.¶ Thursday, 28 January: Bibliographical Legacies: Reproduction & the Mesoamerican Book. Moderated by Alex Hidalgo, with panelists Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Dominique Polanco, Kim N. Richter, and Corinna Zeltsman. Sponsored by the Seminario Interdisciplinario de Bibliología, UNAM.The 2021 New Scholars Program was unusual in its presentation, not only as a virtual program but also in its format. This year attendees attended only one New Scholar’s twenty-minute paper, and all papers were presented simultaneously with an individual Q&A following a 2 pm EST welcome by Selection Committee Chair Barbara Heritage. Attendees reconvened for a Q&A after the presentations and a discussion of what it is like to be an emerging scholar in bibliography today. The 2021 New Scholars presented the following papers:¶ Mathieu D. S. Bouchard (Pantzer New Scholar): “A Revised Account of the 1714 Works of Mr. William Shakespear.”¶ Dr. Sophia Brown (Malkin New Scholar): “Paratexts and Prize Culture: A Case Study of Contemporary Arab Writing in the Anglophone Market.”¶ Ryan Low (BSA New Scholar): “Community of the Written Word: The Spread of Notarial Registers in Medieval Provence.”At the Annual Meeting, the 2020 BSA-St. Louis Mercantile Prize co-winner Dr. Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University) delivered the keynote lecture, entitled “Liberation Bibliography.” Drawing on liberation theology, Black Studies, Black feminist criticism, and feminist bibliography, this talk offered liberation bibliography as a conscious and intentional practice of identifying and repairing the harms of systemic racism, anti-blackness, sexism, heteronormativity, and other oppressive forces in and through bibliographical study, broadly conceived. Liberation bibliography makes visible those knowledge systems and sites of knowledge production, activism, and possibility that institutions have historically rendered invisible or irrelevant. At the same time, it changes and challenges how we do this work, with scholars and projects focusing simultaneously on the ethics of studying “the book” at the same time as they engage in an ongoing reconsideration of citational practices, archives, power, and our relation to them. A lively discussion took place thereafter.The Annual Meeting followed Dr. Spires’s lecture, with opening remarks by BSA President Barbara A. Shailor followed by brief reports from the Secretary, Treasurer, and Chair of the Audit Committee. A brief awards presentation followed recognizing winners of 2021 BSA Fellowships and the Mitchell Prize, as well as the inaugural presentation of the BSA award for outstanding service to the Society to Joan M. Friedman. The meeting adjourned with a toast at 6 pm EST.The BSA Equity Action PlanThe Council and Officers of the BSA voted unanimously on 31 October 2020 to approve the Equity Action Plan now posted on our website. As members of the BSA may recall, on 3 June 2020 we followed the lead of the American Council of Learned Societies and many of its constituent organizations in condemning racism. The BSA pledged to work actively to change the status quo by developing an action plan. We determined to enact such a plan at the October Council meeting. The full text is posted on our website (https://bibsocamer.org/about-us/the-society/equity-action-plan/).Many of our members contributed to numerous early drafts of this document. Society President Barbara A Shailor and Executive Director Erin McGuirl studied closely the action plans of other learned societies. No plan will be perfect; the Council and Officers expect and hope that all will contribute constructive comments for its improvement in the months and years ahead. Over the next five years the BSA will strive to fulfill the goals set forth here.In addition to the Equity Action Plan, the Council and Officers also endorsed unanimously a Code of Conduct document drafted by Alice Schreyer and Joan Friedman. This document was written in conjunction with an external advisor who serves as a consultant ombudsperson to many other societies and institutions. As the BSA began to host its series of webinars in which large numbers of both members and non-members are participating, it became clear that the BSA needed a policy that articulates both its positive expectations for civil discourse and ways of countering disruptive behavior. These expectations will be shared with all who register for BSA sponsored events. Many thanks to Alice and Joan and their working group for their thoughtful approach to this document; it will be incorporated into the Policies and Procedures Manual forthcoming in 2021. The Code of Conduct is also posted to the Society’s website (https://bibsocamer.org/programs/bsa-programs/events-code-of-conduct/).New NamesAt its 31 October 2020 meeting, the Council voted to change the Programs Committee’s name to the Events Committee for greater clarity in communications. Shortly before that meeting on 17 October 2020, BSA Executive Director Erin Schreiner married Steven McGuirl, Head of Acquisitions at the New York Society Library. She is now Erin McGuirl.The BSA Events Committee Calls for ProposalsIn accordance with our identity as an international, interdisciplinary scholarly organization that fosters the study of books and other textual artifacts in traditional and emerging formats, the Bibliographical Society of America pursues its mission by hosting public programs and collaborating with related organizations to do so. The Events Committee calls for proposals to invite collaborations between the Events Committee, BSA members, and a broader bibliographical public. The BSA aims to sponsor a calendar of varied programs each year, which can include but are not limited to lectures, workshops, conference sessions, and receptions following events that are bibliographical in nature.In all BSA events, the material text—that is, the handwritten, printed, or other textual artifact, broadly conceived—as historical evidence, and/or the theory and practice of descriptive, historical, textual, and/or critical bibliography, should be a central concern to participants and organizers.Proposals for events taking place between October and December of 2021 are due on 15 April 2021. Please visit the Events Committee page on the BSA website to review application guidelines and the application form (https://bibsocamer.org/programs/propose-an-event/).❧EventsSociety Events (In-Person)In the spring of 2020, the Society and indeed the entire world made swift changes to its programs and protocols in response to the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to cancelling or postponing scheduled events, the Society will also hold only virtual events through the Fall of 2021.Society Virtual EventsIn light of in-person event cancellations, the Program Committee and BSA Executive Director coordinated a series of free webinars and other virtual sessions offered to members and the general public. Most events are recorded and posted to the Society’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/c/TheBibliographicalSocietyofAmerica.The following events were held between October 2020 and March 2021:¶ “The Screenplay as Material Text” with Kevin Johnson and Erin McGuirl was held on 1 October 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.¶ The “Book/Print Artists/Scholars of Color Collective,” session 1 of 3 with Tia Blassingame, Ashley Hairston Doughty, Kinohi Nishikawa, and Curtis Small, was held on 23 October 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This series of three virtual conversations was generously sponsored with a gift from David Solo.¶ “Candid Conversations: Booksellers & Librarians” with Heather O’Donnell and Charlotte Priddle was held on 5 November 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.¶ “The Book in Movement: Experimentation and Craft in Autonomous Publishing Networks in Latin America” led by Magalí Rabasa was held on 11 November 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.¶ The “Book/Print Artists/Scholars of Color Collective,” session 2 of 3 with Irene Chan, Devin Fitzgerald, Colette Fu, and Radha Pandey, was held on 20 November 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This series of three virtual conversations was generously sponsored with a gift from David Solo.¶ “Building Better Book Feminisms” with Tamar Dougherty, Leslie Howsam, Brenda Marston, Kate Ozment, and Sarah Werner was held on 3 December 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.¶ “Early European Materials in Modern American Archives: The Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society” with Agnieszka Rec was held on 9 December 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube.¶ “Anarchist Poetry, Revolutionary Propaganda, and a Prison Library: Examining the Textual Legacy of Mexico’s Magonismo and Its Resonances Today” with Diego Flores Magon was held on 11 December 2020. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This was the first in a series of four events organized and proposed to the Committee by T-Kay Sangwand and made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor.¶ “This is a book and ‘our word is our weapon’; the politics of experimental publishing in Latin America” with E. Tonatiuh Trejo in conversation with Jennifer Osorio was held on 21 January 2021. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This was the second in a series of four events organized and proposed to the Committee by T-Kay Sangwand and made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor.¶ “Book/Print Artists/Scholars of Color Collective: Closing Roundtable” with Tia Blassingame, Irene Chan, Ashley Hairston Doughty, Devin Fitzgerald, Colette Fu, Kinohi Nishikawa, Radha Pandey, and Curtis Small on 22 January 2021. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This series of three virtual conversations was generously sponsored with a gift from David Solo.¶ “In defense of ‘cognitive territories’: translation and typography as tools for self-determination in Santa Fe de la Laguna, Michoacán (Mexico)” with Sol Aréchiga Mantilla was held on 12 February 2021. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This was the third in a series of four events organized and proposed to the Committee by T-Kay Sangwand and made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor.¶ “Hacking the quotidian with Mexico’s RRD collective: creative experimentation and transnational collaborations around print technologies and public space” with members of the RRD Collective was held on 12 March 2021. A recording of the event is available on YouTube. This was the last in a series of four events organized and proposed to the Committee by T-Kay Sangwand and made possible by a gift from an anonymous donor.Virtual sessions will be scheduled through Fall 2021. Registration is required. A full schedule of upcoming events is available on the BSA website (https://bibsocamer.org/programs/upcoming-events/).❧ProgramsNew Scholars ProgramThe Bibliographical Society of America each year invites three scholars in the early stages of their careers to present twenty-minute papers on their current, unpublished research in the field of bibliography as members of a panel at the annual meeting of the Society, which normally takes place in New York City in late January. Per the announcement above, the 2021 meeting was held virtually, and this includes New Scholars’ presentations. The New Scholars Program seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of textual artifacts (manuscript, print, or digital). Papers presented by the BSA New Scholars are submitted to the editor of the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America (PBSA) for publication, subject to peer review, and are published in the December issue as part of the proceedings of the annual meeting. The 2021 BSA New Scholars are Mathieu D. S. Bouchard (Pantzer New Scholar), Dr. Sophia Brown (Malkin New Scholar), and Ryan Low (BSA New Scholar). Applications to the 2022 New Scholars Program will open in late summer of 2021. Please visit the New Scholars page on the BSA website for further information (https://bibsocamer.org/awards/new-scholars-program/).❧FellowshipsAnnual FellowshipsEvery year the Society offers a variety of fellowship in support of bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history:The Katharine Pantzer Senior Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades ($6,000) supports research in topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and collecting based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a special emphasis on descriptive bibliography. 2020 Winner: Kirk Melnikoff, “Bookselling in Early Modern England.”The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century ($3,000). Recipients must be a member of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award. 2020 Winner: Sarah Bramao-Ramos, “Readers of Manchu Language Books.”The BSA-Harry Ransom Center Pforzheimer Fellowship in Bibliography (two awards at $3,000 each) supports the bibliographical study of early modern books and manuscripts, 1455–1700, held in the Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Library and in related collections of early printed books and manuscripts, including the Pforzheimer Gutenberg Bible. 2020: No winners.The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography ($3,000) supports scholarship in North American bibliography, including studies in the North American book trade, production and distribution of North American books, North American book illustration and design, North American collecting and connoisseurship, and North American bibliographical history in general. 2020 Winner: Allison Fagan, “Editorial Intimacies, Posthumous Publishing and Toni Morrison’s edition of Toni Cade Bambara’s Those Bones Are Not My Child.”The BSA Peck-Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals ($3,000) supports bibliographical research by conservators, curators, librarians, and others who are responsible for institutional collections of textual artifacts, at early stages of their careers. To be awarded for the first time in 2021.The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript cookbooks (once commonly known as receipt books), medical recipe books that also contain culinary recipes, other types of books, manuscript, and printed material that include a substantial body of culinary recipes, treatises on and studies of gastronomy, or memoirs, diary accounts, or descriptions of food and cooking. Projects may cover any period or country. 2020 Winner: Andrea Gutierrez, “Bibliography of the First Print Cookbooks in Tamil.”The BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography ($3,000) supports the bibliographical study of printed and manuscript items: 1) in the Spanish language produced during any period and in any country; 2) in any language provided they were produced in Spain or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; 3) the bibliographical study of book and manuscript collections in Spain or in its overseas dominions during the time of Spanish sovereignty; 4) the bibliographical study of Spanish-language book and manuscript collections during any period and in any country. 2020 Winner: Daniela Samur Duque, “The Allure of Books: Bookstores and Printshops in Bogotá, 1850s–1920”The Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers ($2,500 and one-year memberships in both the Caxton Club and the BSA) supports bibliographical research that focuses on the physical aspects of books or manuscripts as historical evidence. Books and manuscripts in any field and of any period are eligible for consideration. Projects may include studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Projects to establish a text are also eligible. Studies of enumerative bibliographies and enumerative bibliographies are also eligible as long as they meet the requirements described above. Applicants must live in one of the following states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, or Wisconsin. To be awarded for the first time in 2021.The Charles J. Tanenbaum Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000) supports projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing, design, distribution, and reception of cartographical documents from Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on eighteenth-century cartography. Funded by the Pine Tree Foundation of New York. 2020 Winner: Jordana Dym and Carla Lois, “Bound Images: A History of Maps in Books.”The Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship ($3,000) supports bibliographical study conducted by an individual who identifies as Black. Building on the Society’s commitment to expanding representation of scholars of all backgrounds and identities, this short-term fellowship may be used to pursue bibliographical research in any field and of any period. Projects may include studying the history of book or manuscript production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Projects to establish a text are also eligible. The fellowship honors the life and work of Dorothy Porter Wesley (1905–1995), an accomplished Black bibliographer and librarian, an active member of the Society, and author of the influential 1945 PBSA article “Early American Negro Writings.” Funded by Bruce and Mary Crawford and Barbara A. Shailor in memory of Dorothy Porter Wesley. To be awarded for the first time in 2021.The Katharine Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($3,000) supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the book trades and publishing history in Britain. 2020 Winner: Kate Nesbit, “Listening to Books: Reading Aloud and the Novel, 1800–1935.”The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas ($3,000). The fellowship may be awarded to any scholar, whether academic or independent, whose project explores the history of print culture in the Western Hemisphere. 2020 Winner: Nazera Wright, “Early African American Women Writers and their Libraries.”The BSA-Rare Book School Fellowship. 2019 Winner: Joshua Kruchten (New York University).BSA Short-term Fellowships ($3,000). The Society also offers a number of unnamed, short-term fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above. 2020 Winners: Alexander Jacobson, “Tamizdat as Masquerade”; John McQuillen, “The 15th-Century Blockbook in America: A Descriptive Census”; Yelizaveta Strakhov, “Representation of Translation by Scribes in Manuscripts of John Lydgate’s and Benedict Burgh’s Secrees of Olde Philosoffres.”Details of the program are located at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/fellowships/, or can be had by contacting Hope Mayo, Chair of the Fellowship Committee, [email protected]. The application for the 2022 cycle of Fellowships will open in late summer 2021.❧The Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy SocietyOrganized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927, the Bibliographical Society of America is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. Member gifts have played an important role in advancing BSA’s scholarly mission over the past century. Contributions and legacy gifts from BSA members have provided hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote the study of books and manuscripts as textual artifacts and have furnished important financial support to early-career bibliographers and scholars.The Bibliographical Society of America has established a Legacy Society named after distinguished bibliographer Margaret Bingham Stillwell (1887–1984). BSA’s intent in founding the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society was to recognize the long tradition of giving at BSA and to ensure a vibrant future for tomorrow’s bibliographical scholars.The Society welcomes new members to the Stillwell Legacy Society, and invites you to join this growing cohort of bibliophiles. Please let us know by letter or email that you have remembered the Bibliographical Society of America in your estate plan, and we will be honored to recognize you as a member of the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society. Your membership can be acknowledged in your name. You can also join the Stillwell Legacy Society in honor of—or in memory of—someone close to you. Should you wish, you may choose that your membership remain anonymous. There are no minimum financial requirements for joining—you may pledge any amount that inspires your philanthropy and brings you personal reward. All gifts help to further our mission.Members of the Margaret B. Stillwell Legacy Society will be acknowledged in this journal and on the BSA website, with their permission. Legacy Society members will also be invited to our annual donor recognition event, held each year during Bibliography Week.For more information about the Stillwell Legacy Society and remembering BSA in your estate plan, please contact President Barbara A. Shailor ([email protected]) or Executive Director Erin McGuirl ([email protected]; 212-452-2710). Information is also available on the Support BSA page on the Society’s website (https://bibsocamer.org/support-bsa/). You may also write to the BSA at 67 West St., Suite 401, Unit C17, Brooklyn, NY 11222.Members of the Margaret B. Stillwell Society are:Anonymous (1)Martin AntonettiR. Dyke Benjamin in honor of Dr. Barbara A. ShailorJohn BidwellG. Scott ClemonsBruce & Mary CrawfordElizabeth Denlinger in honor of Erin McGuirlJoan M. FriedmanThomas A. GoldwasserJohn Neal HooverWallace KirsopJennifer Lowe and Gregory PassAndrew and Eleanore Ramsey NadellJustin G. SchillerCaroline F. Schimmel in honor of Miss StillwellErin McGuirl in honor of Joan Cullen PalattellaJohn T. McQuillenBarbara A. Shailor in memory of Marjorie G. WynneDaniel J. SliveKenneth SoehnerWilliam P. StonemanDavid J. SupinoJacqueline M. VosslerThe Society celebrates the Stillwell Society’s Founding Members for their generosity, and hopes their leadership inspires others to join them in making a similar legacy gift to BSA. These unrestricted gifts fortify the long-term stability and financial security of BSA, and allow the Society to continue the intergenerational promotion of bibliographical study and the expansion of our scholarly community.❧Triennial AwardsWilliam L. Mitchell PrizeThe Bibliographical Society of America invited submissions for its seventh William L. Mitchell Prize for Bibliography or Documentary Work on Early British Periodicals or Newspapers. The deadline for the 2021 competition was 15 October 2020, and considered works published after 31 December 2017. The winner of the William L. Mitchell Prize will receive a cash award of $1,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.The Mitchell Prize for research on British serials was endowed to honor William L. Mitchell, former librarian at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas, where he was curator of the Richmond P. and Marjorie N. Bond Collection of 18th-Century British Newspapers and Periodicals and of the Edmund Curll Collection. It was conceived and mainly endowed by Mitchell’s colleague at the Kenneth Spencer Library, Alexandra Mason. The Prize serves as an encouragement to scholars engaged in bibliographical scholarship on eighteenth-century periodicals published in English or in any language but within the British Isles and its colonies and former colonies.Submissions for the Mitchell Prize may concentrate on any periodicals or newspapers printed before 1800 in English-speaking countries, but should involve research into primary sources of historical evidence, such as the analysis of the physical objects, whether for establishing a text or understanding the history of the production, distribution, collecting, or reading of serial publications.Eligible scholarship may take the form of a book or article, a Master’s thesis or PhD dissertation defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM. Eligible scholarship must have been published or, if a dissertation or thesis, approved during the year of the deadline or the three previous calendar years. If a publication has an incorrect nominal date disqualifying it for submission but an actual date of publication within the prize period, it may be nominated with a letter by the publisher or editor testifying to the actual date of publication. Unpublished dissertations and theses must be accompanied by a letter from their authors’ directors attesting to their having been approved.For further information on the Mitchell Prize and to learn how to apply, see the Society website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/william-l-mitchell-prize/.Justin G. Schiller PrizeEndowed by Justin G. Schiller, a dealer in antiquarian children’s books and past member of the BSA Council, the Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th-Century Children’s Books is intended to encourage scholarship in the bibliography of historical children’s books. It brings a cash award of $3,000 and a year’s membership in the Society.Works put into nomination, which must be in English, may concentrate on any children’s book printed before the year 1901 in any country or any language. Submissions should involve research into bibliography and printing history broadly conceived and should focus on the physical book as historical evidence for studying topics such as the history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or reading. Studies of the printing, publishing, and allied trades, as these relate to children’s books, are also welcome. Eligible scholarship may take the form of a published book or article, a master’s thesis or doctoral dissertation that has been defended and approved, or research results distributed in another manner, such as on a website or a CD-ROM.Deadlines for the 2022 competition will be announced in spring 2021, and will consider works (including theses, articles, books, and electronic resources) published after 31 December 2018. For further information on the Schiller Prize and to learn how to apply, see the Society’s website at http://bibsocamer.org/awards/justin-g-shiller-prize/.St. Louis Mercantile Library PrizeFunded by the St. Louis Mercantile Library at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, this prize encourages scholarship in the bibliography of American history and literature. Awarded every three years, the