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January 28, 2014
On January 24th, Professor Matt Kirschenbaum delivered the annual lecture to the Bibliographical Society of America at the Grolier Club in New York City. His talk was entitled, "Operating Systems of the Mind: The Bibliographical Description and Analysis of Born-Digital Texts."
When most people hear the word "bibliography," they think of a long list of books. But bibliographers are actually the people who study how books are made and printed, as physical objects. They are the detectives of the literary world. The remit for Matt's lecture was to "bring the Society into the 21st century." Matt is not sure whether or not he did that, but he feels like he at least brought them to March of 1983.