CALL FOR PAPERS

SACRED LEAVES: THE BOOK BETWEEN MANUSCRIPT & PRINT

First Annual Sacred Leaves Graduate Symposium, University of South
Florida, Tampa Library, Tampa, Florida

February 22-23, 2007

Keynote Speaker: Mark Dimunation, Chief of the Rare Book and Special
Collections Division, Library of Congress. Thursday, February 22,
7:00pm.

The Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of
South Florida seeks papers from graduate students and recent MA or PhD
recipients for its First Annual Graduate Symposium, Sacred Leaves. This
year's theme is The Book Between Manuscript & Print. We encourage
interdisciplinary topics considering the history of the book, with
particular emphasis on the shift from script to print. Subjects for
proposals may include, but are not limited to:

* Readership

* Production techniques

* Word and image relations

* The book as art

* Methodologies in the history of the book

This symposium will coincide with the University of South Florida Tampa
Library's 4th Sacred Leaves exhibition: Beyond the Quill... Books
Printed Between 1450-1500. This exhibit will feature twenty individual
leaves and four full books printed before 1500. These incunabula offer
physical evidence of the transition between script and print, an
evolution not unlike the twenty-first century shift from print to
electronic media. This exhibit explores the dependence of early printed
books on their manuscript predecessors by addressing the overlap in
production and presentation that took place during this transitional and
experimental period.

Deadline: January 5th, 2007.

Please email abstracts of no more than 250 words to Curator of Medieval
Manuscripts Collections and Symposium Coordinator, Lesley T. Stone
lstone@lib.usf.edu (813) 974-4774. Notification of acceptances will be
emailed by January 15, 2007. Please include the title of your paper,
name, affiliation, and email address. Each paper selected will be
allotted 15 minutes for presentation. Papers will be presented in small
group sessions and audience response will be encouraged.

Sacred Leaves: The Book Between Manuscript & Print is organized by the
Special Collections Department of the Tampa Library, University of South
Florida, Tampa, Florida.

Keli Erin Rylance, Ph.D.
Assistant Librarian,

Special Collections Department
University of South Florida Libraries
4202 E. Fowler Avenue, LIB 122
Tampa, FL 33620-5400
813.974.5458 voice
813.396-9006 fax
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