The British and Irish Studies Intelligencer

The North American Conference on British Studies/Southern Conference on British Studies has again arranged with The Scholar’s Choice to manage the combined book exhibit for our annual meeting taking place November 6-8 in Louisville, Kentucky. It will be possible for your recently-published books to be included in their display.  Please refer to the guidelines below:

“Any members interested in having their book displayed at the upcoming NACBS/SCBS meeting should contact their publisher as soon as possible.  Please keep in mind that the publishers pay a fee to display with The Scholar’s Choice and may not have the marketing budget necessary to honor all requests, particularly for older titles. Reservations from the publishers will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis so reserving early is highly recommended.  Please note that The Scholar’s Choice displays on behalf of the publishers and ALL requests must come from them, not the author.  The person who handles reservations at The Scholar’s Choice is Debby Pitts. Your publisher may reach her at djpitts@scholarschoice.com or at 585-262-2048 x.108.”

The Southern Conference on British Studies and the North American Conference on British Studies are pleased to announce that registration for the 2009 Meeting is now open.  We hope that you will join us for the Conference at the Hyatt Regency in Louisville, Kentucky, from 6 to 8 November.   Please consult <http://www.nacbs.org/conferences>  for a copy of the Program in .pdf format and for registration, which is managed through RegOnline.  Registration fees for the 2009 meeting are as follows: $135.00 (NACBS members); $55.00 (graduate students); and $155.00 (Non-Members).  On the conference webpage, you will also find hotel information. The Hyatt Regency will hold rooms at its special conference rates ($115.00-165.00) until 14 October. Those wishing to find room shares are advised to make use of the NACBS Facebook Page
(<http://tinyurl.com/ncqczu>) or H-Albion (<http://www.h-net.org/~albion/>).  Information on air and ground transportation will soon be available online.  Those who will travel to Louisville by air should book flights to the Louisville International-Standiford Field Airport (SDF), which is served by many carriers.

We look forward to seeing you in Louisville.

V. Markham Lester, President and Local Arrangements Chair, Southern
Conference on British Studies

Lara Kriegel, Program Chair, North American Conference on British Studies

ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is pleased to make individual subscriptions available through standing membership in the North American Conference on British Studies as an added benefit of your membership.

Individual subscriptions are USD $35.00 for a twelve-month, renewable, subscription. $15 of your subscription will come back directly to the North American Conference on British Studies and the balance will help sustain HEB as a resource for the entire scholarly community.

The link below will bring you directly to the online purchase module at ACLS Humanities E-Book. You will need to choose the North American Conference on British Studies from the pull-down menu and provide your membership number.

To initiate a subscription, please visit:
https://www.humanitiesebook.org/subscription_purchase.html

Information and Terms
The subscription offers unlimited access to its collection of cross-searchable, full-text titles across the humanities and related social sciences (https://www.humanitiesebook.org/titlelist.html).

Titles have been selected and peer reviewed by ACLS constituent learned societies for their continued value in teaching and researching, and approximately 500 are being added each year.

The collection includes both in- and out-of-print titles ranging from the 1880s to the current year. Titles link to publishers’ websites and to online reviews in JSTOR, Project MUSE, and other sites.

Individual subscriptions are ideal for those whose school might not yet have an institutional subscription to HEB or for individual members of a learned society who might not be affiliated with a subscribing institution.

For inquiries email: subscriptions@hebook.org

The North American Conference on British Studies now hosts a page on
delicious.com that focuses on accommodation and travel tips for research in
the UK and Ireland:

<http://delicious.com/kelly_nacbs>

While all members can see our bookmarks, if you sign up, you can join the
NACBS network and help us edit and expand our resources.

For those of you unfamiliar with delicious.com, here is some more
information:

“Delicious is a social bookmarking service that allows users to tag, save,
manage and share web pages from a centralized source.

Bookmark any site on the Internet, and get to it from anywhere Instead of
having different bookmarks on every computer, Delicious makes it easy to
have a single set of bookmarks kept in sync between all of your computers.
Even if you’re not on a computer you own, you can still get to your
bookmarks on the Delicious website.

Share your bookmarks, and get bookmarks in return If your friends use
Delicious, you can send them interesting bookmarks that they can check out
the next time they log in. Of course, they can do the same for you. As you
explore the site and find interesting users, you can use our Subscriptions
and Network features to keep track of the Delicious tags and users you find
most interesting.

Discover the most useful and interesting bookmarks on the web See what’s hot
with Delicious users by checking out our popular tags. By looking at popular
bookmarks for a tag, you’ll be able to discover the most interesting
bookmarks on the topics you’re most interested in. Browse bookmarks on just
about anything from the best programming tips to the most popular travel
sites, all in an easy to read format.”

For those of you who have not done so already, please join the NACBS
Facebook group at

<http://tinyurl.com/nacbs-fb>

Dear H-Albion List Members,

Many thanks to everyone who has submitted panel and paper proposals for the
2009 NACBS Meeting in Louisville.  I’m delighted to see a range of high
quality submissions across themes and chronologies from scholars at all
levels in their careers.  I know that a number of you are working diligently
to complete panel proposals; others have recently begun their semesters.  To
facilitate submission at this busy time, I’d like to extend the due date for
panel and paper proposals to FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, while still encouraging
you to get your proposals in as soon as possible.  Full panels are
encouraged, but individual papers will be considered, too.

Thanks, too, for your patience with the new online system.  The system is
working, but it does not give you a receipt confirmation.  If you wish to
allay concerns about receipt or to make corrections, please write to me
after submission, and I will reply as soon as I can.

For those who are still looking to complete panels, I understand that
H-Albion and the new NACBS facebook page have worked wonders for many.
Please also send any remaining questions about panel formation my way.

Sincerely yours,
Lara Kriegel
lara.kriegel@fiu.edu
NACBS Program Chair, 2009-2011
Associate Professor of History
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199

Now that the holiday season has passed and we’ve started a new year–one I
like to think of as a year of miracles, beginning with the rescue of
the passengers from the plane that landed in the Hudson–I’d like to remind
you that it is time to renew your membership in the NACBS for 2009. The
miracle I’d like to see is a 100% renewal in the first quarter of the year.

Your officers and executive committee are doing everything they can to make
your membership ever more valuable to you. In addition to receiving the
Journal of British Studies, we have made it easier for you to have access to
the Institute of Historical Research in London if your institution doesn’t
belong and are pursuing arrangements with presses to give you discounts all
year round. And in addition there is all the support we give to graduate
students and prizes for the superb work you produce year after year.

Have a wonderful 2009. I look forward to seeing you in Louisville in
November.

Barbara Harris, President, NACBS

PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

Oxford University Press and the North American Conference on British studies are pleased to announce the launching of our partnership web-store, which can be found by accessing the “Membership” section of the NACBS website.

In this partnership, Oxford will offer the members of the NACBS a year-round discount on our current and older titles centering on British and European Studies which will be update regularly. Through a link that that can be found on the NACBS website, members will be directed to the NACBS / Oxford partnership web store where they will be able to browse and purchase Oxford titles with no confusion at check-out.

Please enjoy the vast array of titles available to you just for being a NACBS member!

For any questions or concerns regarding the site, please feel free to contact Natanya Mitchell at natanya.mitchell@oup.com.

The NACBS is pleased to announce that its archives are now located at George Washington University in Washington D.C. and available for use. They are, however, located off-site and materials will need to be ordered prior to visiting. Scholars who wish to use these materials should consult the library’s on-line catalogue far enough in advance to ensure that the materials they require will be available.  For further information see the information on the archives at http://www.gwu.edu/gelman/spec/index.html.

NACBS would like to continue collecting material to enhance the archive’s usefulness for future researchers. We hope that past officers of the NACBS and regionals, past editors of the Journal of British Studies and Albion, and past program chairs will consider sending their material to the library.

The address is

Jennifer King, Manuscripts Librarian
The George Washington University
The Melvin Gelman Library
2130 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20052
202-994-0628

The Executive Council has allocated funds to pay for the cost of mailing large amounts of material. If you plan to contribute your papers, please contact the NACBS Treasurer, Lynn Botelho, to discuss reimbursement for postage.

Her address is
Dept. of History, Keith Hall
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Indiana, PA  15705
724-357-3203
botelho@iup.edu

The British and Irish Studies Intelligencer will revive the North American Conference on British Studies‘ (NACBS) Intelligencer, the newsletter of NACBS. In 1998, The Intelligencer went online and ceased publication in 2002. The Intelligencer was a unique publication, providing a regular summary of news relevant to the American British Studies community, including a list of prize recipients, obituaries, council meeting minutes, papers read at regional conferences, and similar information. The seventh series is still online at http://www.nacbs.org/intelligencer/.

The British and Irish Studies Intelligencer (BISI) is a newsletter for the web 2.0 world. Organized like a blog, the BISI is ideal for sharing events and editorials. It will function as a supplement to H-Albion, and, in fact, its editorial board includes the editors of H-Albion.

The BISI is an international endeavor, and while originating as an NACBS publication, its editorial board will integrate the directors of leading British and Irish Studies organizations, institutes, and research libraries. The purpose of the BISI is encourage more international interaction and participation among British and Irish Studies groups.