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Previous article FreeSociety InformationPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmailPrint SectionsMoreEquity Action Plan ReportFrom the CouncilAt the Society’s Annual Meeting on January 27, 2023, President Caroline Duroselle-Melish announced a new initiative to permanently endow the Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship for Black bibliographers. Thanks to a lead gift from Lisa Unger Baskin and matching contributions from the BSA community, we exceeded our goal and raised a total of $110,949. The generosity of our donors will endow the existing Fellowship award and a new Dorothy Porter Wesley award for New Scholars, also in perpetuity. Another exciting development of the winter season was the establishment of a D. F. McKenzie New Scholars award by an anonymous donor. The Council and Officers are grateful for the support and enthusiasm of our donors for the BSA Fellowship and New Scholars Program. Both are crucial for fostering bibliographical studies and broadening our bibliographical community. The two Dorothy Porter Wesley awards and the D. F. McKenzie award will play major roles toward achieving BSA’s mission of fostering the study of material texts.The Equity Action Plan (EAP) commits the Fellowship program to bringing more diversity to bibliographical scholarship, and the BSA Council, Officers, and Executive Director are proud to see this endowment supporting the participation of individuals from under-represented groups. The Society will continue working to develop new Fellowship opportunities in partnership with members and allies in the field. Any individual interested in establishing a new award is gratefully encouraged to contact BSA Executive Director Erin McGuirl by email ([email protected]) or by telephone (+1 347-222-6098).President Duroselle-Melish has also established a Working Group for Fellows and Fellowships. In addition to designing opportunities to share the ongoing work and accomplishments of current and recent BSA Fellows, the group will be responsible for attending to the commitments made by the Society in the EAP with respect to the Fellowship program.At its February 18, 2023, meeting, the Council approved the Society’s Land Acknowledgment, fulfilling a commitment made in the EAP. The text was carefully researched, written, and revised by Events Committee Chair Ashley Cataldo, Council Member María Victoria Fernández, and Secretary John McQuillen; the Council and Officers are grateful to them for their work in service of the EAP. The BSA Land Acknowledgment can be consulted at any time on the Society’s website at https://bibsocamer.org/about-us/the-society/land-acknowledgment.Finally, the Council, Officers, and Executive Director have recently adopted a new labor ethic, “compassionate accountability.” BSA recognizes that volunteers on Council, Committees and Working Groups must balance many competing priorities when fulfilling service commitments for the Society. Similarly, the Society’s Executive Director must balance many competing priorities as the organization’s sole employee. By naming compassionate accountability as our labor ethic, BSA strives to be an effective and adaptable organization that sets achievable goals and ethically stewards our resources (labor, knowledge, and funding) as we respond to the needs of our members and the broader bibliographical community. On an individual level, when BSA volunteers and staff collaborate with compassionate accountability as our labor ethic, the following are true:• Volunteers say “yes” only when they believe they can make a meaningful contribution given their available resources (including time).• Volunteers and staff say “yes” after thoughtful consideration as to their ability to meet stated goals according to a pre-determined, mutually agreeable timeline.• Volunteers and staff feel comfortable and supported in saying “no” when asked to contribute more time, talent, or treasure than they can realistically give.• Volunteers communicate when something comes up. Volunteers talk with their fellow Committee members, or with their Committee Chair, Council leadership, or BSA staff when they need help meeting commitments or adjusting a timeline, or when they can no longer meet commitments made in good faith.• Volunteers and staff feel comfortable speaking up and inquiring about potential conflicts of interest.Congratulations to the 2023 FellowsPlease join the BSA Fellowship Committee, the Council, and Officers in congratulating the bibliographers recognized with a Fellowship award in 2023. As outgoing Committee member Paloma Celis Carbajal observed at the 2023 Annual Meeting, the BSA budget includes more than $50,000 in funding for Fellowships each year. Support for the Fellowship program comes from the BSA’s endowment, foundations, and individuals. We are grateful to the people and organizations—past and present—whose generosity and foresight power this key program.Talea Anderson, Washington State University, “William Moon and the Creation of Tactile Print for the Blind Working Classes” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University, “Accidental Shakespeare” (The Katharine F. Pantzer Senior Fellowship in the British Book Trade)Norah Epstein, University of St. Andrews, “Visual Commonplacing: The Transmission and Reception of Printed Devotional Images in Reformed England” (The Caxton Club Fellowship for Midwestern Bibliographers)Suzan Folkerts, Bibliotheek Deventer, “Manuscript Production in Late Medieval Deventer” (BSA–Peck Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)Sonia Hazard, Florida State University, “Christianity and the Book in the Cherokee Diaspora, 1828–1861” (The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book in the Americas)Elena Lolli, Oxford University, “Rewriting Jewish Moneylending History Beyond Stereotypes: The Business of Pawnbroking in Early Modern Italy through the Analysis of the Newly Discovered Hebrew Account Books” (BSA Short-Term Fellowship)Yolanda Makey, Pennsylvania State University, “Recovering and Reclaiming Claude McKay’s Lost Novel(s) Amiable with Big Teeth” (The BSA–St. Louis Mercantile Library Fellowship)Helen B. K. Marodin, University of South Carolina, “Exploring the National Library in Rio de Janeiro: Modernity and Brazilian Culinary Literature” (The BSA–Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Culinary Bibliography)Katie Mitchell, Good Books Atlanta, “Prose to the People: An Exploration of Black Bookstores” (The Dorothy Porter Wesley Fellowship)Andrea Pérez, Universidad Anáhuac, México, “Genre-Configuration through Materiality in 17th-Century Mexican Printed Books: A Study of Printed Poetic Contests (and Other Textual Genres)” (The BSA–Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography)Michele Pflug, University of Oregon, “‘In Pursuit of Butterflies’: Gender, Madness, and Natural History in the English Countryside, 1655–1715” (The BSA–ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth Century)Dominique Polanco, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, “Copying the Colony: The Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México’s Many Editions” (The BSA–Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography)Stanislav Voloshchenko, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, “Cyrillic Acts and the Epistles of the Apostles of the Fifteenth–Seventeenth Century at the National Library of Poland (Text, Territory, and Human)” (BSA–Peck Stacpoole Fellowship for Early Career Collections Professionals)Molly Yarn, Independent Scholar, “Women Printers and the English Book Trade, 1640–1665” (The Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellowship in the British Book Trade)Call for Volunteers: 2024–2027 Term of ServiceService on the BSA Council, a Committee, or a Working Group is one of the most consequential and rewarding ways for members to be involved in the work of the Society. Information on committee service and the 2023 call for volunteers will be posted on the Society website (bibsocamer.org) in late June. Please note that the information below is subject to change; all those interested in BSA service should consult the Society’s website for up-to-date information.The BSA seeks a diverse and inclusive roster of volunteers, and we welcome self-nominations from members of this community to contribute to our mission by serving on the Council, Committees, or Working Groups. Terms of service are three years, renewable once. Our interprofessional and interdisciplinary community seeks to continue building our reputation for inclusion and for diverse and stimulating programming. Our Committees and Working Groups help to steer the direction of the BSA and the field of bibliography. By volunteering, you will take an active role in that process! The Society aims to strike a balance across professional, subject expertise, ethnic, and other relevant backgrounds on the Council and on all Committees and Working Groups. Sometimes there are not enough positions for all who volunteer, and self-nomination does not guarantee an appointment.Openings on Committees and Working GroupsThe following Committees seek new volunteers for the 2024–2027 term of service:• Audit Committee• Events Committee• Publications Committee• New Scholars Committee• Nominating CommitteeAnnual Meeting VolunteersThe Society’s Annual Meeting continues to evolve, and in 2024 we seek five volunteers to facilitate Bibliography Week events both in person and online. This will be a brief commitment in January and early February of 2024. Volunteers will either (1) facilitate virtual components of the meeting and provide basic tech support on Zoom, or (2) attend the Annual Meeting in person in New York and assist with set-up, breakdown, and community building at the meeting. Modest travel funding may be available for people in the tri-state metropolitan area.Openings on the Council and the Executive CommitteeThe Nominating Committee advises BSA members and PBSA readers to visit the BSA website to review the posted call for nominees for the Council and for various positions on the Executive Committee. The slate of Councilor and Officers assembled by the Nominating Committee will stand for election at the Society’s Annual Meeting on January 26, 2024. A list of current Officers and Council members is available on the BSA website at https://bibsocamer.org/about-us/bsa-officers.Council Members serve for a three-year term, and Officers serve a two-year term; all terms are renewable once. Please consider nominating yourself or other possible candidates! We strongly value the expertise and collegiality of all of our members and especially welcome nominees who represent the racial and ethnic diversity of bibliographical communities in the United States. The Society has defined its goals for equity, diversity, and inclusion in the introduction of the EAP, and the Nominating Committee assembles a slate in accordance with the “Guiding Values for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” posted on the BSA website (https://bibsocamer.org/join-bsa/how-to-volunteer/nominating-committee/guiding-values). The Committee seeks individuals interested in leadership who are committed to helping the Society fulfill the goals laid out in its EAP and asks all interested candidates to review it carefully. 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