Dear All,
Apologies for cross posting.
Registration is now open for this year's CILIP LIHG Conference: "Finding the Women in Library & Information History", at the John Rylands Library, Manchester, on Saturday 22nd June 2019.
** Programme:
Elizabeth Gow (Keynote) on Enriqueta Rylands, founder of the John Rylands Library (Title TBC)
Amy Bowles, Women and library ownership in early modern England.
Klára Lázok, The Evolution of an 18th Century Transsylvanian Noble Woman from Collector to Connoisseur. The Development of the Library of Zsuzsanna Bethlen of Iktár (1770-1797).
Michelle Crowther, 'Each doing a little much would be accomplished' Elizabeth Fry and her benefactors: crowd-funding libraries nineteenth-century-style.
Jill Whitelock, ‘Access to any books that she may need’: the admission of women to Cambridge University Library, 1869–1923.
Karen Attar, An Unsung Heroine: Miss Muriel Sinton Quinn.
Sian Prosser, The women who managed the 'expanding universe' of the library of the Royal Astronomical Society from the 1920s to the 1950s.
Tanya Kirk, 'The Loveliest Librarian'? Librarianship as women's vocation in career romances of the 1940s-1960s. **
To facilitate travel, the conference will begin at 10:10am (with registration from 9:45am) and close by 16:20pm. Lunch and refreshments will be provided, so please let us know any dietary requirements at registration. Please note that VAT will be added to ticket prices offered at registration. Prices including VAT will be £40 for members, £50 for non-members and £30 for students.
** The LIHG committee are delighted to announce that we are able to offer a student bursary to attend the conference**
The bursary will include the conference fee and reasonable travel expenses not exceeding £100. The committee may award more than one bursary based on the strength of applications. Applicants should submit a one-page CV and short paragraph explaining their interest in attending the conference to Jill Dye ([log in to unmask]) by Friday 24th May 2019. Please note that this bursary is only available to UK-based students (full or part time), and applicants must be members of the Library & Information History Group (or willing to join the group if awarded the bursary).
For more information and to register, please visit: https://www.cilip.org.uk/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1210442&group=201304
With very best wishes,
Dr Sophie Defrance
LIHG Publicity Officer.
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