Midwinter Madness: Field Trips, Week of Jan. 19, 2009

Like many of you, I'm heading to Denver later this week for ALA's Midwinter Meeting. There the forecast calls for daily highs in the mid-40s. That's near balmy! If you're stuck in plain ole New York City, keep yourself warm with these Bibliography Week activities:

• Jan. 20: Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library hosts "The Book Before Writing", a lecture by poet and typography-guru Robert Bringhurst.
• Jan. 21: William Stoneman gives a talk on the first American exhibitions of illuminated manuscripts at the Grolier Club.
• Jan. 22: Booklyn's Open Salon. (Details forthcoming.) ...is happening (see calendar).
  
• Jan. 23: Annual Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of America, featuring Terry Belanger on "A View from the Bridge: Further Meditations by the Captain of the Iceberg."
• Jan. 24: The American Printing History Association's Annual Meeting and the Center for Book Arts Winter Open House.

Also on the docket this week, the first Urban Librarians Unite meeting/happy hour/social bonanza of the year. Join this all-inclusive group on Tuesday evening at The Creek in enchanting LIC. And finally, Radical Reference hosts a Friday night salon discussion on OCLC's new Policy for the Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records.