The story
Lee Shiflett provides the history of the philosophical beliefs of academic librarians in the late 19th and early 20th century. An essay published in Libraries, Books and Culture, by Wayne A. Wiegand detailed the politics surrounding the formation of the Bibliographical Society of America through its split from the American Library Association and the reconstituting of the Bibliographical Society of Chicago into a national organization.
Three retrospectives of the organization have been published in the Papers in 1941, 1979, and 2004. The latter two became the basis for entries in the 1969 and 2018 editions of the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, respectively.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the BSA a retrospective collection of articles was published in 1980: The Bibliographical Society of America, 1904-79. The introduction was by Thomas R. Adams, president in 1978-1980. The concluding contribution, "The State of Bibliography Today, " by G. Thomas Tanselle was the text of his address presented at the annual meeting of the BSA at the Pierpont Morgan Library on January 26, 1979.
The centenary of the Bibliographical Society, precursor of the BSA, was marked by William P. Barlow, Jr.'s address in 1991.
A Presidential Colloquium on the 100th anniversary of the BSA was held September 2005.
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