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Book Trade History in the Digital Age24th July at Chetham's Library, ManchesterReservations: http://www.bookhistory.org.uk/print-networks/eventsProgramme09.45 Arrival and registration (tea and coffee available)10.15 Welcome (Michael Powell)       The British Book Trade Index: moving on (Maureen Bell and John Hinks)Session 1: Developing resources 10.45 Helen Vincent and Anette Hagan (NLS) The Scottish Book Trade Index: past, present and future11.15 Nicola Wilson and Claire Battershill (Reading), On building the Modernist Archives Publishing Project (MAPP): scholarly adventures in the digital world11.45 Break (tea and coffee available)Session 2: Mapping trade networks12.00 Matthew Stallard (Manchester) An Overview of Historical GIS and its Potential Uses in Book Trade History12.30 Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Sheridan Institute of Technology, Ontario), Digitising International Book Trade Networks: the geospatial and temporal mapping of English texts abroad13.00 LunchSession 3: The critical researcher14.00 Angela McShane (V&#38;A), Upsides, Downsides and Broadsides in the Digital Archive14.30 Lisa Peters (Chester), Opening up the World's News (and no longer having to wrestle with a microfilm): online newspaper archives in the digital age15.00 John Lavagnino (King's College London), The Rarity of the Thomason Tracts15.30 Break (tea and coffee available)Session 4: Round table discussion15.45 Digital resources for book trade history: what do we want and how do we get there? with Anthony Mandal (Cardiff), Sharon Howard (Sheffield), Giles Bergel (Oxford), Julianne Simpson (Manchester) 16.45 End of day