**ANZAMEMS regrets to announce that the PATS Exploring the Manuscript Book, scheduled for 18 Feb 2013 at the State Library of Victoria will no longer be going ahead**

This PATS will be held immediately after the ANZAMEMS conference, being hosted by Monash University at its Caulfield Campus, Melbourne, 12-16 February 2013.

It will be run by Prof Rod Thomson (University of Tasmania), Prof Kari Anne Rand (University of Oslo, Norway), and Dr Bronwyn Stocks, all distinguished authorities on manuscript books and their culture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:

The PATS will offer postgraduates and researchers in the field of manuscript culture an opportunity to learn core principles of the analysis of manuscript books (codicology) and other related disciplines necessary to reading and contextualising the text and imagery in books from the medieval and renaissance period, with particular reference to the holdings of manuscript books in the collections of the State Library of Victoria. The morning sessions will be held in the Conference Centre of the SLV, while there will be two parallel sessions in the afternoon, working on specific manuscripts within the SLV. 

There are a limited number of places available for this PATS. To apply for a place, send a CV and brief letter outlining your research interests to constant.mews@monash.edu, by 1 November 2012. 

A limited number of bursaries will be available to those attending the PATS, intended for those also participating in the ANZAMEMS conference.

Registration for the PATS will be $40 for the day, covering refreshments, but not lunch (available close to the SLV).

Application information can be downloaded from the website: http://www.anzamems.arts.uwa.edu.au/pats_2012