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[Posted on 18 February 2026, with updates, now including a link to a Recording of the Roundtable<\/em>]<\/p>\n New York, New York. Front entrance of The Grolier Club. Photo courtesy of The Grolier Club.<\/p><\/div>\n We celebrate the successful accomplishment of the 2026 RGME Colloquium<\/a> at The Grolier Club of the City of New York<\/a> on Wednesday 11 February. We give thanks to Jamie Elizabeth Cumby, Grolier Club Librarian who offered to give the Workshop which set the plan in motion, the contributors, the staff of the Grolier Club, RGME advisers, and members of the RGME Production Team supporting both the hybrid and in-person aspects of the pair of events.<\/p>\n The events comprised two parts:<\/p>\n 1) “Show-Off-and-Tell” Workshop<\/strong> in the upstairs Council Room<\/p>\n 2) “Transformations and Renewals” Roundtable with Lightning Talks<\/strong>, open to the public, in the downstairs Exhibition Hall.<\/p>\n For a description and the Program, please see:<\/p>\n Here we celebrate the Colloquium, describe its characteristics as accomplished, and, with permission, share some photographs. For their photographs inside the Club, we credit and thank the photographers: Mildred Budny<\/strong>, Hannah Goeselt<\/strong>, Justin Hastings<\/strong>, and Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Entering The Grolier Club (11 February 2026). Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n This first hybrid event for the RGME in the Year 2026 \u2014 for which we have chosen the Theme of “Transformations and Renewals”<\/a> for exploration across our activities and projects \u2014 brought the RGME to The Grolier Club of the City of New York, in central Manhattan, for a curated set of hybrid events<\/strong> on Wednesday 11 February 2026<\/strong>. In keeping with the RGME’s dedication to accessibility for events reaching a wider audience, these events were designed to be available both in person and online.<\/p>\n We gathered a generous team of specialists, collectors, and curators of books \u2014 all Grolier Club Members and mostly RGME Associates<\/a>\u2014 to examine, reflect on, and celebrate selected treasures of the Grolier Club Library<\/a>. On offer: reports and conversations about research discoveries, work-in-progress, and the joys of experiencing the materials directly and also sharing their stories.<\/p>\n Participants offered comments and\/or lightning talks. Speakers made comments at the afternoon workshop over original materials, and Panelists gave lightning talks at the early-evening roundtable:<\/p>\n Beppy Landrum Owen prepares for her comments at the Workshop and Lightning Talk for the Roundtable. Photograph by Mildred Budny.<\/p><\/div>\n Open to the public both in-person and online Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong>, a Princeton-based 501(c)(3) educational organization, visited the Grolier Club for an in-person\/hybrid \u2018Roundtable\u2019. In lightning talks, several Club members discussed a curated selection of books, manuscripts, and prints on the RGME\u2019s 2026 organizational theme of \u201cTransformations and Renewals. Open to the public, this event offered offer book-signings for Club member guides who recently published works discussed.<\/p>\n After the Workshop<\/strong> (see below), our panelists gathered for the “Transformations and Renewals” Roundtable<\/strong> with Lightning Talks in the ground-floor Exhibition Hall.<\/p>\n Here we see, at the front, beneath the display screen, and between the display cases for the current exhibition, the panelists take their seats in speaking order, from right to left.<\/p>\n 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Roundtable: Left-Hand Side with Podium. Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Roundtable: Right-Hand Side with Podium. Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n Anna Siebach-Larsen presides over the Roundtable. Photograph\/Screenshot by Justin Hastings.<\/p><\/div>\n Open to the public online; As a prelude to the Roundtable on “Transformations and Renewals”<\/strong>,\u00a0Friends of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence<\/strong> and Grolier Club Members<\/strong> had a hybrid “Show-Off-and-Tell\u2019 Workshop<\/strong> to examine, up close, the original materials (as book, manuscript, print) to be discussed further at the evening Roundtable<\/strong> in lightning talks. The curated selections comprised favorites from the Grolier Club Library which have given rise to detailed study and discoveries for them and their contexts.<\/p>\n Like our pair of hybrid workshops recently over original manuscript and printed materials in Special Collections at the Princeton University Library, held by our Associate Eric White at the 2025 RGME Colloquium on Fragments<\/a> (see below), this hybrid workshop took place over original materials at the Grolier Club, guided by the Librarian Jamie Cumby<\/a> (see also Jamie Cumby<\/a>).<\/p>\n We shared experiences of delight and wonder, to celebrate the joys of learning from original materials at the Club and their relatives in other collections, especially in combination, to learn more about the rich range of the Grolier Club Library, and to give thanks for responsible access to it and for its curators. Open to the public online and to an invited audience in person (limited seating), this event was designed to be accessible widely by interactive Zoom Meeting.<\/p>\n Speakers<\/strong> (in order of presentation): Reid Byers prepares for the RGME Workshop in the Council Room. Photograph by Beppy Landrum Owen.<\/p><\/div>\n Setting up the projection and internet connection for the Workshop and its audiences both onsite and online. Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n John T. McQuillen describes characteristics of BlockBooks. Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n Original Materials from The Grolier Club Library, laid out for display and examination. Photograph by Hannah Goeselt.<\/p><\/div>\n Mark Samuels Lasner examines a Favorite Book for the RGME Workshop in the Council Room. Photograph by Beppy Landrum Owen.<\/p><\/div>\n Mark Samuels Lasner and Jamie Elizabeth Cumby examine materials for the RGME Workshop in the Council Room. Photograph by Beppy Landrum Owen.<\/p><\/div>\n Participation at the RGME Workshop in the Council Room. Photograph by Beppy Landrum Owen.<\/p><\/div>\n Conversations following the RGME Workshop in the Council Room. Photograph by Beppy Landrum Owen.<\/p><\/div>\n Conforming with our two organizations’ shared commitments to hybrid access for events which take place in person, the two parts of the Colloquium were granted hybrid functionality to reach our wider audiences.<\/p>\n Taking into account the policies, practices, and arrangements in place for hybrid access<\/p>\n 1) to public events at The Grolier Club and both sponsoring organizations agreed to share the responsibilities for such access by covering one each of the two different rooms to be used for the Colloquium. Accordingly,<\/p>\n For the Workshop, we took care to bring exactly the same RGME Production Team, to operate in-person and online, that had worked so well together for the widely-admired pair of Workshops held (in two sittings) in Special Collections at Princeton last November for the 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>. For this new venue for a hybrid RGME visit to original materials, we arranged to bring additional, event-specific, equipment following the technical rehearsal in January for the Workshop.<\/p>\n The plan for hybrid access by the RGME for the Workshop at The Grolier Club was grounded on our experiences, techniques, and teamwork (on-site and online) as has been developed and honed for our series of In-Person Visits<\/strong> to Special Collections. These visits have progressed from collection to collection, both private and institutional, by using equipment on site and in our mobile travelling kit, adapting from venue to venue, as the approach and implementation improves resourcefully. So far:<\/p>\n Poster 3 for 2025 Autumn Colloquium. Workshops on “Fragments at Princeton”<\/p><\/div>\n In pursuing this generous goal for hybrid events, the RGME has striven to improve its methods, techniques, and travelling ‘kit,’ albeit with limited resources, as it continues to hold visits and other events at selected locations. Likewise it takes care to listen to feedback, suggestions, and requests by both in-person and online attendees, and respond as resourcefully as possible, as it works to grow its abilities for the purpose. Thus we thank our hosts, participants, and audiences, to learn and improve together, so as to offer a worthwhile experience of engagement as best might be.<\/p>\n Sometimes the process encounters circumstances beyond our control, despite careful, informed, and resourceful preparations. Such was the case for some parts of the plan here. (See Hybridities and Curiosities<\/a>).<\/p>\n We commend all those in the Grolier Club and those members of the RGME Production Team who helped consistently before, during, and after the event, to shape the collaborative hybrid process and foster its collective experience, with the aim of\u00a0 a good, shared outcome.<\/p>\n The Recordings for both the Workshop and the Roundtable count as publications (or publications in progress) hosted respectively by the Grolier Club (Roundtable) and RGME (Workshop).<\/p>\n The RGME publications for the event, both digital and printed, including our website’s announcement and report (you are here), are set in RGME Bembino. The Posters, Program Booklet, and Colloquium Booklet can be downloaded freely as pdfs.<\/p>\n The 4-page Program Booklet for both the afternoon Workshop<\/strong> and early-evening Roundtable<\/strong><\/p>\n 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Poster 1. Set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n Both Posters for this bipartite event can be downloaded:<\/p>\n The 64-page illustrated Colloquium Booklet offers a guide and souvenir for the event. You may download it here, in two formats according with your printing and viewing preferences.<\/p>\n The Grolier Club, View of Exhibition “Paper Jane” (to 14 February 2025). Image: Grolier Club.<\/p><\/div>\n *******<\/p>\n *******************<\/p>\n 2026 RGME-Grolier Colloquium Poster 2. Set in RGME Bembino.<\/p><\/div>\n There is no charge to join our Friends. All are welcome. The Friends hold special meetings, competitions with prizes, and other activities, recognizing the wide range of interests among our audience, scholarly and more.<\/p>\n Please make a Donation in Funds or in Kind<\/strong> for our nonprofit educational corporation powered principally by volunteers. Your donations and contributions are welcome, and can go a long way. They may be tax-deductible to the fullest extent provided by the law.<\/p>\n We look forward to welcoming you to the special visit to the Grolier Club, whether you can attend in person or online!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Front of The Grolier Club. Photograph (4 April 2008) [cropped] by participant\/team W. C. Minor as part of the Commons:Wikipedia Takes Manhattan project, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, via https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Grolier_Club.jpg.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Report 2026 RGME Colloquium at The Grolier Club “Transformations and Renewals” Examining and Celebrating Treasures of the Grolier Club Library Wednesday 11 February 2026 Hybrid, in Two Events: Workshop + Roundtable [Posted on 18 February 2026, with updates, now including a link to a Recording of the Roundtable] We celebrate the successful accomplishment of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1383,117,2727,678,2820,2635],"tags":[2902,2358,2899,2379,2890,2901,1819,462,7,2639,2900],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21216"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21395,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions\/21395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/grolier-_250114_5200-adjusted-for-reflection-226x300.jpg\")
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The Nature of the Event<\/h2>\n
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\n\u201c ‘Show-Off-and Tell’: A Curated Selection from the Grolier Club Library”<\/li>\n
\n\u201c \u2018That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once. . .\u2019
\nLost Stories of the Making of the Bremer Presse\u2019s 1934 (but 1935) Vesalian Icones anatomicae<\/em>\u201d<\/li>\n
\n“Blockbooks Dismembered”
\nNote<\/em>:
\nWatch for the coming exhibition at the Morgan later this year:<\/p>\n“Late Medieval European Blockbooks: The First Printed Picture Books<\/a>” (6 November 2026 to 16 May 2027)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
\n\u201cA Medieval Missal Fragment from the Otto F. Ege Collection and its Provenance\u201d
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\n\u201cBreak-Up Books and Make-Up Books: Encountering and Reconstituting the Legacy of Otto F. Ege and Other Bibliocasts\u201d (See 2025 RGME Autumn Colloquium on Fragments<\/a>)<\/li>\n
\n“Secrets in Secrets in Secrets”
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\nReid Byers, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books<\/em> (Oak Knoll Press and Le Club Fortsas, 2024)<\/li>\n
\n\u201cWilliam Gowans, New York Bookman and Poe Family Boarder\u201d
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\nRichard Kopley, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life<\/a> (2024)<\/li>\n
\n\u201cA Gift from William Morris to the Grolier Club\u201d
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\nWilhelm Meinhold, Sidona the Sorceress<\/em> (Kelmscott Press, 1893), translated by “Francesca Speranza” \/ Jane Francesca Agnes Wilde, Lady Wilde\u2014a novel drawn from the life of the Pomeranian noblewoman Sidonia von Borcke (1548\u20131620), accused of witchcraft and executed.<\/li>\n
\n\u201cFrom \u2018By a Lady\u2019 to Global Superstar: Curating 250 Years of Jane Austen\u201d
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\nGrolier Club Exhibition. “Paper Jane”<\/a> (to 14 February 2026)
\nOnline exhibition.\u00a0Exhibition Gallery<\/a>
\nOnline curators\u2019 tour.\u00a0Tour of Paper Jane<\/a>
\nCatalogue.\u00a0Catalogue<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nPresider\/Moderator for Roundtable<\/h3>\n
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Book-Signings at Roundtable for Grolier Authors’ Publications<\/h3>\n
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I. The “Transformations and Renewals” Roundtable
\nin the Grolier Club Exhibition Hall
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\n6:00 to 7:30 pm<\/strong> EST (GMT-4)<\/h2>\n
\nBook-signings available<\/em><\/p>\nOverview<\/h3>\n
Panelists<\/strong> for the Roundtable: Mildred Budny<\/strong>, Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong>, John T. McQuillen<\/strong>, Reid Byers<\/strong>, Richard Kopley<\/strong>, Mark Samuels Lasner<\/strong>, and Mary Crawford<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\nPresider<\/strong>: Anna Siebach\u2013Larsen<\/strong><\/div>\n\nThe Panelists prepare<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The RGME Executive Director introduces the Panel<\/h3>\n
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The Roundtable Presider introduces the Panelists<\/h3>\n
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II.\u00a0The “Show-Off-and-Tell” Workshop
\nin the Grolier Club Council Room
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\n2:30 to 4:30 pm<\/strong> EST (GMT-4)<\/h2>\n
\nIn-person seats limited, for Grolier Members and invited RGME Guests<\/em><\/p>\nOverview<\/h3>\n
\nJamie Elizabeth Cumby<\/strong>, Beppy Landrum Owen<\/strong>, John T. McQuillen<\/strong>, Mildred Budny<\/strong>, Reid Byers<\/strong>, Richard Kopley<\/strong>, and Mark Samuels Lasner<\/strong><\/p>\nSetting the stage<\/h3>\n
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Preparing the Projection<\/h3>\n
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Describing the genre, challenges, and accomplishments of BlockBooks<\/h3>\n
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The Table Laid for Display of Original Materials<\/h3>\n
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Checking details<\/h3>\n
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Closer Looks<\/h3>\n
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The Long View as the Table is Set<\/h3>\n
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Comparing Notes<\/h3>\n
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Hybrid Access<\/h2>\n
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Background and Foreground:
\nAn Approach with Grounding<\/h3>\n\n
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Event Publications<\/h1>\n
Program<\/h2>\n
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Posters<\/h2>\n
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Colloquium Booklet<\/h2>\n
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Recording of the Roundtable<\/h2>\n
\nFollow this link for the Grolier Club’s Recording for the February 11 livestream of \u201cTransformations and Renewals<\/a>: The RGME and the Treasures of the Grolier Club Library.\u201d<\/i>\u00a0<\/i><\/div>\n\n
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