This is the Spring 2004 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: CONFERENCE REPORT I; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; THE SHARP EDGE; AAS TURNS 21; SHARPIST HONOURED; CONFERENCE REPORT II; COURSES & PROGRAMMES; BOOK REVIEWS; NEW BSA FELLOWSHIP; CALLS FOR PAPERS; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; SHARPISTS WANTED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; THE SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: The Colonial & Postcolonial History of the Book (CONFERENCE REPORT I), by Mary Hammond & Robert Fraser (pp. 1-2); Future of the Booke (THE SHARP EDGE), by Gary Frost (pp. 3-4); AASI TURNS 21, by John B. Hench (p. 4); 4th Annual Craft Critique Culture Conference (CONFERENCE REPORT II), by Stephanie Gowler (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Geoffrey Beare, Margaret Nichols, Elizabeth Morrison, Andrew Piper, Anne Henry, Scott E. Casper, Marja Smolenaars (pp. 6-10); The Justin G. Schiller Prize for Bibliographical Work on Pre-20th Century Children's Books (NEW BSA FELLOWSHIP) (p. 10); The Jacobean Printed Book: Authors, Printers, Readers, Queen Mary, U. of London, 2-4 September 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 10); Picture This: The Art and Technique of Illustration, University of Delaware, Newark, 30 September-1 October 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 10); British Book Trade History (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 11); Roughing It: Printing & the Press in the West (FORTHCOMING EVENTS) (p. 11).

null / This is the Autumn 2002 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: SHARP ELECTIONS; EDITORIAL NEWS; SHARP AWARDS; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES; NOTES & QUERIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES AND COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP TREASURER'S REPORT; SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: Call for Nominations (SHARP ELECTIONS) (p. 1); New Editor, by James L.W. West III (EDITORIAL NEWS) (p. 1); Sharp Book Award (SHARP AWARDS) (pp. 1-2) Graduate Student Essay Prize (SHARP AWARDS) (p. 2); Book History Online, by Paul van Capelleveen (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES) (pp. 2-3); Children of the Code (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 3); SHARP 2003, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA, 9-12 July 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); New Technologies, Old Texts, DeMontfort University, Leicester, UK, 7-9 July 2003 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Colloquium Sponsored by the European Society for Textual Scholarship, University of Antwerp, 6-7 December 2002 (CONFERENCES) (p. 4); American Historical Association (AHA) SHARP Panel, Chicago, 3 January 2003 (CONFERENCES) (p. 4); Keats-Shelley Association Grants (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); American Printing History Association (APHA) Fellowship in Printing History (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); The Bibliographical Society Grants and Fellowships for Research (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 5); Centre for the History of the Book University of Edinburgh Fellowships (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 5-6); History of Reading Special Interest Group Outstanding Thesis/Dissertation of the Year Award (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships 2003-2004 (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); 2003 Virginia Historical Society Research Fellowship Program (AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); The American Printing History Association (APHA) On the Road Events 2002: A Conversation with Jack Stauffacher, The 2002 J. Ben Lieberman Memorial Lecture, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, 24 October 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 6); A New England Wayzgoose, Museum of Printing, North Andover, MA, 27 October 2002 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Toronto Centre for the Book 2002-2003 Program (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2002-2003 (LECTURES AND COURSES) (p. 7); Tyndale's Testament, Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Present-1 December 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); Quack, Quack, Quack: The Sellers of Nostrums in Prints, Posters, Ephemera and Books, Grolier Club, New York, NY, Present-23 November 2002 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); Thys Boke is Myne, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 13 November 2002-1 March 2003 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 7); SHARP Pre-Conference National Book History Projects, by James L.W. West III (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 7-8); SHARP's 10th Conference (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 8); BOOK REVIEWS, Wendy Moffat, Mary Helen McMurran, Robert J. Wilson, Les Belikian, Judith Hawley, Paul Morgan, Craig S. Abbott, Matthew Woodcock, Lotte Hellinga, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (pp. 8-14).

null / This is the Summer 2001 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; NATIONAL ACTIVITIES; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; LECTURES & COURSES; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; OBITUARY: ANGUS MCKAY FRASER; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: New Sharp Officers (SHARP NEWS OF NOTE) (p. 1); Book Research in Germany: Deutsche Buchwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (German Book Research Society), by Mark Rectanus (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 1-2); Institut d'histoire du livre (NATIONAL ACTIVITIES) (pp. 2-3); SHARP 2002, University of London, 10-13 July 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); The Community Library: An International One Day Conference on a Local Theme, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland, 19 August 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); Lives in Print: Biography and the Book Trade from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century, Society of Antiquaries and Birkbeck College, London, 1-2 December 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 3); University of London School of Advanced Study, Institute of English Studies, MA in the History of the Book (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); APHA American Printing History Association 2001 Lieberman Lecture, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC, 25 September 2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 4); Histoire du livre et de l'imprimé au Canada/History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume II (1840-1914), Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Montreal, 18-19 May 2001, by Carl Spadoni (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by Paul Arblaster, Alexandra Franklin, Emily B. Todd, David Chambers, William Noblett, Yannick Portebois, Peter R. Frank, Jonathan Rose, Graeme Gooday, Robert Matuozzi, Jon Topham, Linda K. Hughes, Priscilla Coit Murphy, Amy M. Thomas, Martin Harris (pp. 5-14).

This is the Summer 2003 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: BIBLIOPHILY EXTRAORDINAIRE; THE SHARP EDGE; CALL FOR PAPERS; UPCOMING UK CONFERENCE; WORKSHOP REPORT; NEH FELLOWSHIP; MUNBY FELLOWSHIP 2004-5; BOOK REVIEWS; GIS WORKSHOP; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP END. This issue includes the following contributions: International Association of Bibliophiles Conference, Cape Town, 2002 (BIBLIOPHILY EXTRAORDINAIRE), by Donald Kerr (pp. 1-2); Crossing the Book History/Publishing Studies Divide (THE SHARP EDGE), by Simone Murray (pp. 3-4); Print Culture & the City, McGill University, Montréal, Can, 26-27 March 2004 (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Culture & the Literary Prize, Oxford Brookes University, UK, 4-5 October 2003 (UPCOMING UK CONFERENCE) (p. 4); WORKSHOP REPORT, by John Gouws (p. 5); NEH FELLOWSHIP, by Barbara Hochman (p. 5); MUNBY FELLOWSHIP 2004-5 (p. 5); BOOK REVIEWS, by M.W. Jackson, Kathleen Kamerick, Jane Maienschein, Dorina Miller Parmenter, James McLaverty, Isabelle Lehuu, Marie-Luise Spieckermann, Graham Parry (pp. 6-11); and GIS in the Arts & Humanities, University of Portsmouth, UK, 8-11 September 2003 (GIS WORKSHOP) (p. 11).

This is the Autumn 2000 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Fiona Black; Associate Editor & Bibliographer: Linda Connors; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Paul Gutjahr. CONTENTS: NOTES & QUERIES; RESOURCES ONLINE; POSITION ANNOUNCEMENTS; SHARP NOMINATIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCES; AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS; LECTURES & COURSES; EXHIBITIONS; CONFERENCE REPORTS; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARP NEWS OF NOTE; SHARPEND; SHARP FINANCIAL REPORT. This issue includes the following contributions: Bibliographical Society of America Archives and History (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); James Esdall, Irish Printer-Bookseller (NOTES & QUERIES) (p. 1); R[esearch]S[ociety for]A[merican]P[eriodicals] Update, by Ellen Gruber Garvey (RESOURCES ONLINE) (pp. 1-2); SHARP Annual Conference, Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia, 19-22 July 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 3); History of the Book in Canada Project Open Conference for Volume 2, 1840-1918, McGill University and Bibliothèque nationale du Québec, Canada, 18-19 May 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (pp. 3-4); Canadian Library Association, Library History Interest Group, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 13-17 June 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) 2001 Conference Rethinking the 19th-Century Press in the 21st Century, Graduate Center of the City University of New York, New York, NY, 14-15 September 2001 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Historical Association, San Francisco, CA, 3-6 January 2002 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); American Printing History Association 25th Annual Conference "On the Digital Brink", Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, 20-21 October 2000 (CONFERENCES) (pp. 4-5); History of the Book in Canada Open Conference for Volume 1 (Beginnings to 1840), Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, 24-25 November 2000 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); American Historical Association: SHARP Sessions, Boston, MA, 5 January 2001 (CONFERENCES) (p. 5); Bibliographical Society of America Fellowship Program 2001 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); International League of Antiquarian Booksellers $10,000 Prize for Best Bibliography/Book about Books (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 6); John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowships, 2001-2002 (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 6-7); History of Reading Thesis or Dissertation Award (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (pp. 7-8); SHARP Book History Prize (AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS) (p. 8); Gutenberg 2000 at the British Library Guided Tours, British Library, 27 September-13 December 2000 (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 8); Toronto Centre for the Book Program 2000-2001 (LECTURES & COURSES) (pp. 8-9); The Edinburgh Book History Seminar Programme 2000-2001, Edinburgh University Library (LECTURES & COURSES) (p. 9); Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA, 8 September-25 November 2000 and Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 11 December 2000-4 March 2001 (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 9); Fritz Kredel Centennial Exhibition, Grolier Club, New York, NY, 20 September-18 November 2000 (EXHIBITIONS) (pp. 9-10); The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 20-22 July 2000, by Patrick Leary (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (p. 10); Material Cultures: The Book, the Text, and the Archive, 28-30 July 2000, by Claire Squires (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 10-11); 18th British Book Trade Seminar, 25-27 July 2000, by Paul Morgan (CONFERENCE REPORTS) (pp. 11-12); BOOK REVIEWS, by Thomas Augst, Berry Dongelmans, Ian McGowan (pp. 12-14).

This is the Winter 2004 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Set in Adobe Garamond with Wingdings. Editor: Sydney Shep; Book Review Editors: Ian Gadd, Chuck Johanningsmeier; Bibliographer: Padmini Ray Chaudhury. CONTENTS: APHA CONFERENCE REPORT; FORTHCOMING EVENTS; THE SHARP EDGE; CALLS FOR PAPERS; SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT; BOOK REVIEWS; MORE BOOK PRIZES; FELLOWSHIPS; BIBLIOGRAPHY. This issue includes the following contributions: New Work in Printing History (APHA CONFERENCE REPORT), by Eugene G. Schwartz (pp. 1-2); From Truffle Hunter to Gourmet Shopper (THE SHARP EDGE), by Beth Luey (p. 3); Second Annual Conference on the Future of the Book, Beijing, China, 29-31 August 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Religion and the Culture of Print in America: Authors, Publishers, Readers and More Since 1876, Madison, Wisconsin, 10-11 September 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Digital Preservation and Electronic Scholarly Editions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 27-30 December 2004 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); Paradise: New Worlds of Books & Readers, Wellington, New Zealand, 27-30 January 2005 (CALLS FOR PAPERS) (p. 4); BOOK REVIEWS, by David McKitterick, John Edwards, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Nicholas Pickwoad, Michael L. Turner, Paul Arblaster, Gowan Dawson, Ittai J. Tamari (pp. 5-10).

Many digital news archive systems in Taiwan are based on format description, not subject indexing. This requires users to know their background or the terminologies used, in order to retrieve information from these archives. This paper discusses how the original elements were indexed from various perspectives in Chinese digitized news archives. It also makes recommendations to improve the industry, including strengthening the process, connection, and description of news contents, organization, and management. This will enable cross-system retrieval and in-depth resource integration among systems.

Masthead date: Winter 1992-1993. / This is the Winter 1992-1993 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: Jonathan Rose. CONTENTS: OUR INAUGURAL CONFERENCE: WHAT WE HAVE PLANNED; THE PROGRAM; SUMMER SEMINAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICAN CULTURE; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTORS; CONFERENCES; PUBLIC LECTURES; RECENT PUBLICATIONS; HOW WE ARE DOING.

This is the Summer 1997 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: SHARP 1997 CONFERENCE REPORT; SHARP 1998 16-20 JULY IN VANCOUVER, BC, CANADA; CANADIAN HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECT LAUNCHED; REPORT ON THE SECOND ANNUAL D.F. MCKENZIE LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; TEACHING THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT; CALL FOR PAPERS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS; SCHOLARLY LIAISONS; WEB WATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SHARPEND. This issue includes the following contributions: CANADIAN HISTORY OF THE BOOK PROJECT LAUNCHED, by Patricia Fleming (pp. 2-3); REPORT ON THE SECOND ANNUAL D.F. MCKENZIE LECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, by Ian Gadd (p. 3); TEACHING THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, by Sherry Lee Linkon (pp. 3-5); Voice, Text, and Hypertext at the Millennium (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT) (p. 5); 1998 ASECS Conference; Popular Culture Association: Reading and Publishing Popular Literature (CALL FOR PAPERS) (p. 5); GK Hall Award for Outstanding Contribution to Library Literature; American Antiquarian Society: Mellon Post-Dissertation Fellowship; Research Fellowships in American History and Culture for 1998-1999 (FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Media History; ATQ (JOURNAL ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 6); SHARP/ASECS News; American Antiquarian Society Reprints Gross's SHARP Keynote Speech; McKenzie Trust Appeal Continues (SCHOLARLY LIAISONS) (p. 6); Journal of Electronic Publishing (WEB WATCH) (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Maureen Bell, Elizabeth Morrison, Thomas A. Vogler, D.R. Woolf (pp. 7-9).

null / This is the Summer 1999 issue of SHARP News. SHARP News (ISSN 1073-1725) is the quarterly newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. Editor: David Finkelstein; Associate Editor: Linda Connors; Book Review Editor: Fiona Black. CONTENTS: SHARP99 SAILS INTO MADISON; JOHNS A WINNER; ARCHIVE PRESERVATION PROJECT INITIATED; SHARP AFFILIATES WITH MLA; CAMBRIDGE TO PUBLISH THE BRITISH BOOK; ROUTLEDGE COMMISSIONS READER; ILH DICTIONARY TO BE PUBLISHED; MAINZ 2000 CALLING; CAN BOOK HISTORY BE TAUGHT AT A SMALL COLLEGE?; CALLS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS; CALLS FOR PAPERS; CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS; EXHIBITIONS; FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENTS; WEBWATCH; BOOK REVIEWS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; IN MEMORIAM: JOHN CURTAIN, MICHAEL TREADWELL; SHARPEND; SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORY OF AUTHORSHIP, READING AND PUBLISHING, INC. ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT: YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 1998. This issue includes the following contributions: SHARP99 SAILS INTO MADISON, by Leon Jackson (p. 1); ARCHIVE PRESERVATION PROJECT INITIATED, by Trysh Travis (pp. 1-2); CAN BOOK HISTORY BE TAUGHT AT A SMALL COLLEGE?, by Jonathan Rose (pp. 3-4); Local History, Local Identities, Chiltern, Victoria, Australia, 1-3 October 1999 (CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS) (p. 5); Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians, National Library of Canada, Ottawa (EXHIBITIONS) (p. 5); WEBWATCH, by Patrick Leary (pp. 6-7); BOOK REVIEWS, by Robin Alston, Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch, Leslie Howsam, Patricia Fleming (pp. 7-10).