• About the Fair
• Activities at the Fair
• Events Around Town
• 2007 Exhibitor List
• Cultural Partners
• Floor Plan
• Highlighted Items at the Fair
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Cultural Partners

• The American Antiquarian Society
• The American Antiquarian Society
• Association of Literary Scholars and Critics
• The Boston Athenaeum
• The John J. Burns Library at Boston College
• The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries
• The Ticknor Society
• Women’s National Book Association

The American Antiquarian Society

The American Antiquarian Society is an independent research library founded in 1812 in Worcester, Massachusetts. The library’s collections document the life of America’s people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction. Collections include books, pamphlets, newspapers, periodicals, broadsides, manuscripts, music, graphic arts, and local histories.

Visit the Society’s Web site at www.americanantiquarian.org for more information about the library, including directions, reading room hours, public programs, fellowship opportunities, and access to the online catalog.

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Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

The Association of Literary Scholars and Critics offers a forum for all those interested in the distinction nature, uses, and pleasures of literature, from ancient to modern, in all languages. Its aim is to encourage wide-ranging discussions between those committed to the reading and study of literary works, and to the reading and writing of non-fiction essays, criticism, and scholarship concerned with them. We seek to develop a healthy environment for academic literary study and for the literary culture that extends beyong the academy. We accordingly welcome literary scholars, both academic and independent; teachers of literature in colleges, universities, and secondary schools; poets, novelists, playwrights, actors, and directors; translators, journalists, critics, editors, and publishers; and all other serious students of literature, wherever they come from and however they define themselves. Visit our Web site at www.bu.edu/literary for more information.

The Boston Athenaeum

The Boston Athenaeum, one of the oldest and most distinguished independent libraries in the United States, was founded in 1807 by members of the Anthology Society, a group of fourteen Boston gentlemen who had joined together in 1805 to edit The Monthly Anthology and Boston Review. Their purpose was to form “an establishment similar to that of the Athenaeum and Lyceum of Liverpool in Great Britain; combining the advantages of a public library [and] containing the great works of learning and science in all languages.”

Today, its collections comprise over half a million volumes, with particular strengths in Boston history, New England state and local history, biography, English and American literature, and the fine and decorative arts. For more information, visit www.bostonathenaeum.org or call 617-227-0270.

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The John J. Burns Library at Boston CollegeThe John J. Burns Library at Boston College is the rare books and special collections library for the university. The Library is home to more than 150,000 volumes, some 15,000,000 manuscripts and important collections of architectural records, maps, art works, newspapers, photographs, films, prints, artifacts and ephemera.

Though its collections cover virtually the entire spectrum of human knowledge, the Burns Library has achieved international recognition in several specific areas of research, most notably: Irish studies; British Catholic Authors; Jesuitana; fine print; Catholic liturgy and life in America, 1925-1975; Boston history; Caribbeana, especially Jamaican studies; Balkan studies; and Congressional archives. It has also won acclaim for its significant holdings in the fields of nursing, American detective fiction, Thomas Merton, Japanese prints, Colonial and early Republic Protestantism, and banking.

For more information, visit http://bc.edu/libraries/centers/burns or call 617-552-3282.

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The John Carter Brown LibraryThe John Carter Brown Library is an independently administered and funded center for advanced research in history and the humanities, founded in 1846 and located at Brown University since 1901. Housed within the Library’s walls is an internationally renowned, constantly growing collection of primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825. For 150 years the Library has served scholars from all over the United States and abroad. In order to facilitate and encourage use of the collection, the Library offers fellowships, sponsors lectures and conferences, regularly mounts exhibitions for the public, and publishes catalogues, bibliographies, and other works that interpret its holdings.

Exhibitions in the MacMillan Reading Room are open to the public 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Friday, and Saturday 9:00 a.m. until noon. The Simón Bolívar Room is open on request. 
For more information, visit www.brown.edu/facilities/john_carter_brown_library .

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries

RBMS, The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), strives to represent and promote the interests of librarians who work with rare books, manuscripts, and other types of special collections. Recognizing that success in the world of books involves the active partnership of librarians, collectors, scholars, and members of the antiquarian book trade, RBMS also makes available at its booth the literature of a number of other related organizations, including the American Printing History Association (APHA), the Bibliographical Society of America (BSA), Rare Book School, the rare book program of the Palmer School of Library and Information Science at Long Island University, the Grolier Club, and others.

For more information, visit us online at www.rbms.info.

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The Ticknor Society

The Ticknor Society is an organization of book collectors, booksellers, librarians, historians, archivists, conservators, printers, publishers, writers, and all lovers and readers of books. We are dedicated to the enjoyment, promotion, and support of books and book culture.

The Society is named for George Ticknor (1791-1871) and his daughter, Anna Eliot Ticknor (1823-1896). George Ticknor was a prominent Boston collector, scholar, and library supporter. His great collection of Spanish literature is at the Boston Public Library. Anna Eliot Ticknor was an early member of the Massachusetts Library Commission (founded in 1890, the first state library commission in the United States) and an active promoter of literacy for all. Both father and daughter were instrumental in making books widely accessible in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

For more information on The Society or upcoming events, visit us online at www.ticknor.org, or contact us at info@ticknor.org or 617-495-2509.

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Women’s National Book Association

In 1954, a group of women publishers, booksellers, writers, reviewers, and librarians founded the Boston Chapter of WNBA. The Boston chapter today maintains its commitment to promoting books, literacy, and women’s careers in publishing and allied fields. Its membership reflects the chapter’s original diversity, representing all facets of the book world. The chapter sponsors monthly programs from September through June. Tapping the rich resources of the Boston Literary scene, these programs range from brunches with best-selling authors to roundtables with publishing professionals and writers who generously share their insights and knowledge.

As it has from the start, the Boston chapter maintains strong ties to the National WNBA and its sister chapters. For more information, visit www.wnbaboston.org or call 212-208-4629.

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