Events & Announcements
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ALT-Text Guide in the Works!
With the help of SHARP member Ellen Forget, SHARP News is putting together an alt text guide for book historians. We need your support to make this happen: send us…
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Call for Organizers: SHARP 2024
The annual SHARP conference for 2024 is looking for organizers and a host institution. Click to learn more about how to submit a proposal. Deadline March 13, 2023.
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Introducing SHARP Features
The book is so much more than that thing with pages sitting on your shelf, or the file on your e-reader. Books are concepts, symbols, the subjects of viral social…
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Call for Applicants: SHARP in the Classroom Editor
SHARP News is the open access newsletter for the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. SHARP in the Classroom is our place to build a public network…
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Job Opportunity: Professorship in Media Change with a focus on Book Culture and Digital Publications, Leipzig University
The professorship researches and teaches at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies on the transformation of the book as a medium and comparable writing and reading media in the…
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Invitation to Shape the Future of SHARP News Bibliographies
SHARP News is excited to announce that the SHARP News bibliographies, which have been published quarterly till now, will be supplemented with bibliographies on specialized topics that will not be…
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Welcome!
As SHARP president Shef Rogers states in his welcome letter, SHARP News has historically been a stimulating resource for book history reviews, updates, and bibliographies. We want to ensure this…
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Call for Submissions: SHARP in the Classroom
SHARP News is developing a new division for writing about book history pedagogy. SHARP in the Classroom will provide tools for teaching book history as well as reflections on pedagogical…