Events in October 2026

The Liaisons Committee and BSA-AHPA Liaison Jessica Salinas invite BSA members and their networks to attend this year’s conference on how Revolutionary-era printing and document production continues to shape our design standards, cultural sensibilities, and political life today.

Vintage advertisement of a woman in a green dress reading a newspaper promoting High Life Java and Mocha Coffee beside a tea table.

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1895 - 1917). High life java & mocha coffee Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/26c6b370-c6e5-012f-9c1e-58d385a7bc34

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The BSA invites Stillwell Legacy Society members to a virtual conversation with Justin Schiller, who will share stories of some of the most special books he has handled.

A smiling 12-year-old Justin Schiller in a vest and bow tie leans over a display case with various photographs and printed materials, including a

Justin Schiller at 12 years old, 1956 Columbia Baum Centenary exhibition

The Events Sponsorship Committee is pleased to support this joint conference of The Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program (Recovery) and the Association for Documentary Editing (ADE), which will take place in person in Houston, TX from 8-10 October.

Person reading a black-and-white newspaper at a table beside an open laptop and stacks of printed materials.

The Events Sponsorship Committee is pleased to support his half-day symposium celebrating the culmination of the Home to Harlem project, a multiyear effort by scholars, archivists, and librarians to identify and enhance access to the original collections of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Bookplate design with a blue background, featuring an eye at the top, the text

Personal book plate or Arturo “Arthur” Schomburg featuring the Eye of Providence image used by freemasons, as well as an owl with outstretched wings perched atop an open book, flanked by two lamps–all symbols of knowledge and wisdom. Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library.