Conference participants on their way to the next session (© Photothek) What does it take to uphold research excellence? What do librarians think about AI in the scholarly environment? How can we combat inequalities in academic publishing? This year’s APE conference tackled these questions and more. Every year, the APE Conference (Academic Publishing in Europe) brings togetherContinueContinue reading “APE Conference 2026: Scholarly Communication at a Turning Point”
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London Book Fair 2023
This year’s London Book Fair took place between 18th and 20th April at Olympia (still my favourite venue of the four I have experienced). Annika and I attended on the first and second days. We agreed it was one of the most enjoyable and productive LBFs we have been to for several years. It hadContinueContinue reading “London Book Fair 2023”
Belated New Year’s Greetings!
Happy 2022 from Gold Leaf! We apologise for not having sent our new year’s greetings sooner. We are not offering excuses for being so tardy, but if we were, we could claim that we have been waiting to get more of a grip on the lie of the land as the new year swings intoContinueContinue reading “Belated New Year’s Greetings!”
Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021
After more than eighteen months of a face-to-face industry events famine, Back Together Again, the 2021 BA Conference which started with the Gardners Trade Show on Sunday 12th September and continued with the conference itself the following day, was an absolute triumph. It demonstrated that independent booksellers are not only alive and well, but despiteContinueContinue reading “Back Together Again: The Booksellers Association Conference 2021”
The ABT Conference 2019 – Student Workshop
(Picture of the ABT Conference Student Panel, (c) Alan Staton, Booksellers Association) Six international students took part in the student workshops at the ABT Conference 2019. They were respectively from Mexico, The Netherlands, Italy, Iran, South Korea and Indonesia. The workshop was run twice, so that all delegates could attend once (it ran back-to-back withContinueContinue reading “The ABT Conference 2019 – Student Workshop”
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