"The goal in the next decade or so should be to prepare students to be discerning users of, and contributors to, all media. An excellent starting point on the Web is the site of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing." -- Edward Tenner, Chronicle of Higher Education, March 9, 2007
British Book Trade Archives (1830-1939)
Publishers' Archives: Albinski List (19th & 20th c., US)
Canadian Publishers' Records Database
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Accessions to UK Repositories: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Reading University Library collections (19th & 20th c., UK)
Scottish Book Trade Archive Inventory
The John Murray Archive, National Library of Scotland
Princeton University Library
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Am. & Brit.)
Lilly Library, Indiana University
Guide to Sale Catalogues in the British Library
The Weedon Guide to Research in Victorian Publishing Records
Manuscripts, The Ancient World, The Middle Ages
DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks
The Digital Scriptorium, database (UC Berkeley)
The Duke Papyrus Archive
Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian
Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts (KB and Museum Meermano)
Europe
British Book Trade Index (BBTI)
The Dicey and Marshall Catalogue (London, 1764) (R. C. Simmons)
HENRIK: Books and their Owners in Finland to 1809 (Finnish Lit. Soc. & Project Hendrik)
Private Libraries in Renaissance England: PLRE. Folger database & PLRE Project
Finales de libro: Exposici? de colofones (University of Salamanca)
Il libro antico (Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto e Graziano Ruffini)
Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston)
Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records
Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland
North America
Database of American Libraries before 1876 (Davies Project, Princeton)
19th-c. American Children's Book Trade Directory (American Antiquarian Society)
Histories of U.S. Publishers
"Index of Modern Paperback Publishers" (Russell Barnes, Hyde Park Books, Idaho)
Periodicals
The American Newspaper Repository (Nicholson Baker; in 2004 the repository moved to Duke University Library.)
The Athenaeum: Index to reviews and reviewers 1830-70; 1872-86
British Newspapers, 1800-1900
The Curran Index to Wellesley Revisions (Victorian periodicals)
Internet Library of Early Journals
Macmillan News Archive, 1962-91
Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE)
Obscure Contributors to 19th-century Periodicals
The Quarterly Review Archive (Jonathan Cutmore)
The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of 18th-c. Periodicals
Graphic Design, Typography, Illustration
Database of Bookbindings (British Library)
Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration (Cardiff University)
The Image of France, 1795-1880 (database of prints)
Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930 (University of Alabama)
Rare Images Database, Diet National Library
The 19th Century
At the Circulating Library: A Database of Three-Volume Victorian Fiction (Troy Bassett)
British Fiction, 1800-29: A Database of Production, Circulation & Reception (Cardiff University)
19th-Century Books on Publishing and the Book Trade (searchable catalogue)
19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library)
Wide Views, Broad Views
ABC for Book Collectors (classic glossary, 8th ed., ILAB)
Book History Online: An International Bibliography (Koninklijke Bibliotheek)
The Bookdealer Interviews (Sheila Markham)
Japanese and Chinese Classics Database
American Library Association archives (University of Illinois)
Biblia Sacra bibliography of bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium
Bibliography for Western Book History (Richard Clement, University of Kansas)
Bibliography of British Books for Children & Adolescents 1470-1770 (Ruth Bottigheimer, SUNY)
British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century
The Broadsides Collection (John Hay Library, Brown)
The Chapbook Collection (Lilly Library, Indiana)
Descriptive catalogue of major UK lectures in bibliography, 1895-present (Ian Gadd)
Directory of Cartoon Research Libraries (Randall Scott, MSU Libraries)
Dutch Museum of the Book (Museum Meermanno) catalogue
Early Modern Online Bibliography
National Archives (UK) Research Guide to Stationers' Hall Copyright Records
National Archives (UK) Research Guide to Newspapers and the Press
NYPL Research Guide to the History of Books and Printing (bibliography)
19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library)
Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book Culture (1989-2003) (James E. May)
Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources (Laura Sue Fuderer)
Archivalia. Large digital libraries of pre-1800 printed books in Western Languages
The Philological Museum. An analytic bibliography of online neo-Latin texts. (Dana Sutton, UC-Irvine)
St. Bride Printing Library, London
Europe
Bibliopolis: History of the Printed Book in the Netherlands
Bibliotheca Eruditionis , history of books and reading in Hungary
Cambridge Project for the Book Trust
Early Printed Books Project, University of Oxford
Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (Ian Maxted)
Historybooks: British Historians & the Book 1850-1950 (Leslie Howsam)
HoBo (formerly "History of the Book@Oxford"), book history events in the UK
The King's Printer Project: Politics, Power and the Printed Word in the Reign of James I
Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston)
Il libro antico (Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto e Graziano Ruffini)
The London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production
Museu Virtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal)
The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 (Universities of Leeds and Leicester)
Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (Cambridge)
Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records
North America
The American Newspaper Repository (Nicholson Baker; in 2004 the repository moved to Duke University Library.)
Book History and Literacies at Minnesota (Michael Hancher)
The Edmonton Collection of Street Literature (Gary Kelly, Alberta)
Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (Duke University)
History of the Book in Canada
The Wider World
Codex Sinaiticus Online
History of the Book in Australia
Making Books, Shaping Readers, University College Cork
Print Culture in New Zealand: The Otago Project
Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945
Typefoundry: Documents for the History of Types and Letterforms (James Mosley)
Urban Manuscripts Project (Ctr. for Medieval Studies, University of York)
Waddleton Chronology of Colour Printed Illustrations (Norman Waddleton)
Online Publications
Biases of the Ear and Eye (Daniel Chandler)
The Bookdealer Interviews (Sheila Markham)
Book History Timetable (Cremers/Knops)
Books of the Century (Daniel Immerwahr) List of bestsellers, Book-of-the-Month Club 1900-1999
Linotype & Linotipisti (Giorgio Coraglia)
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press in a Changing World, (Jones and Mukerji, UCSD)
The World of the Renaissance Print Shop, (Merry Wiesner-Hanks, U. Wisc.-Milwaukee)
External Blogs and Discussion Groups, Events
BibliOdyssey
HoBo (formerly "History of the Book@Oxford"), book history events in the UK
Textual Studies, 1500-1800 (Kevin Curran)
Pecia: le manuscrit médiéval (Jean-Luc Deuffic)
American Antiquarian Society
American Printing History Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Center for the Book, Library of Congress
Early Book Society
Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading
History of Literacy (History of Reading Special Interest Group)
International Comic Arts Forum
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media
Japan Society of Publishing Studies (Japanese language only)
Library History Group (Great Britain)
Library History Roundtable. American Library Association
Printing Historical Society, London
Society for Book Research in Austria
Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies
William Morris Society
Bibliographical Society. Great Britain
Bibliographical Society of America
Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia
Oxford Bibliographical Society
American Historical Print Collectors Society
Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings
Briar Press: A Letterpress Community
British Association of Paper Historians
The Grolier Club
Historic Libraries Forum (UK)
IFLA Library History Section
International Association of Paper Historians
Libraries Today (Canadian library history; Lorne Bruce)
Library History Roundtable. American Library Association
Stationers' Hall and Stationers' Company, London
American Journalism Historians Association
Research Society for American Periodicals
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Newspapers and Periodicals History Forum of Ireland
J-HISTORY, journalism history discussion
Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book (University of Oxford)
Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (Cardiff University)
Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, U of London
Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh
Institut d'histoire du livre, Lyons
Leiden Centre for the Book
Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society
Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University
University of Iowa Center for the Book
Museums
American Bookbinders Museum
American Museum of Papermaking
Museu Virtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal)
Melbourne Museum of Printing
The National Print Museum of Ireland
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Typographical Collections, University of Amsterdam Library
Manuscripts & Early Printing
The Atlas of Early Printing (University of Iowa Libraries)
Bibliologie Mediévalé (Jean Luc Deuffic)
Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas (Penn)
The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center
The History of Chinese Bookbinding (Colin Chinnery, British Library)
Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian
Images of Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece
Incunabula: The Dawn of Western Printing (National Diet Library, Japan)
The Infancy of Printing (Golda Meir Library)
The Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press
A Medieval Blockbook (Marianne Hansen)
Printing: Renaissance and Reformation (Thomas Cooper Library , Univ. of SC)
Women Printers in Great Britain, 1475-1700 (Lynne Fors, UIUC)
Illustration, Typography, Bookbinding, etc.
Cary Graphic Arts Collection, library of printing history, Rochester Institute of Technology
Color Printing in the 19th Century (U. of Delaware)
Finales de libro: Exposici? de colofones (University of Salamanca)
Graphic Design: Typography (Jeffrey Barr, University of South Florida Libraries)
A History of Wood Engraving (University of North Texas Libraries)
The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830 (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery, Chicago Botanic Garden
Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers, (Rebecca W. Davidson, Princeton University Library)
19th, 20th, 21st Century
Bibliotheca Canadiana: A Historical Survey of Canadian Bibliography (McGill University Library)
Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in WWII (Book Arts Press)
Concise History of the British Newspaper since 1620
Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (Katherine Harris)
Is it a Book? (Karen Drayne, Barbara Davison, Emily-Jane Dawson, U. Maryland)
The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles)
The Mosher Press (Millersville University)
Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read, (Pat Pflieger)
Nineteenth-Century Girls' Series, (Deidre Johnson)
The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 (U. of North Texas)
The Word on the Street, broadsides in the collection of the National Library of Scotland
Victorian Periodicals and the Empire
The Tanselle Syllabi (Rare Book School)
History of the Book, (Erik Delfino, Catholic University)
History of the Book, (Kate Martinson, Luther College)
History of the Book, (Bertrum MacDonald)
History of the Book, (William C. Robinson, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
History of the Book, 1450 to the Present, (Joel Silver, Indiana)
Topics in the History of Books and Printing, 1400-1800, graduate seminar (Ryan and Traister, UPenn)
History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950, undergraduate syllabus (Daniel Traister)
History of the Book in Britain and Europe, (Jonathan Rose)
History of the Book in France, from the Ancien Regime to the Present, (Willa Silverman, Penn State University)
The History of the Book and Its Forms, (Deborah McGrady, Tulane University)
Survey of Publishing, Text to Hypertext, (James C. Morrison, Harvard University)
Technology of the Book, (Dino Felluga, Purdue University)
Technologies of the Word, (Robert M. Fowler, Baldwin-Wallace College)
Transitions in Media: Manuscript to Print, 1450; Print to Digital, Today, (Mary Kay Duggan, Berkeley)
The Culture of the Book, (Nancy Mace, U.S. Naval Academy)
History of Reading, (David Pearson and Nell Duke, Michigan State University)
Medieval Orality & Literacy, (Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv)
Knowledge, Literacy, and the Politics of Information in Early Modern England, (Sabrina Baron, University of Maryland)
Shakespeare and the Material Book, (Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M)
Street Ballads, (Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota)
Victorian Studies: Illustrated Periodicals, syllabus, bibliography (Michael Hancher, Univ. of Minnesota)
American Literary Circles: The Atlantic Monthly Circle, (Sherry J. Linkon, YSU)
American Literary Genres: The Bestseller, (Sherry J. Linkon, YSU)
Bestsellers in America, 1790 to the Present, (Paul Gutjahr, Indiana University)
Popular Fictions: Bestsellers from the Greeks to Grisham, (Ryan and Traister, UPenn)
Print, Literacy & Power in America to 1900, (Mary Kay Duggan, U.C., Berkeley)
The Profession of Authorship in 19th-Century America, (Sherry J. Linkon, Youngstown State Univ.)
The iSchool podcast: Public lectures on book history, (University of Toronto)
Technology of the Book Web Ring, (Dino Felluga, Purdue University)
Degree and Credit Programs
Graduate Program in Book History and Print Culture, University of Toronto
Ph.D. minor in Print Culture History, CHPCM, University of Wisconsin
MA/PhD Program in History and Culture: Book History Concentration, Drew University
Gutenberg Institute for Book and Media Sciences, MA and PhD program, Mainz, Germany
History of Text Technologies, Florida State University
Master's Programme: 'Text and Book', University of Birmingham
MA in Literature and Publishing National University of Ireland at Galway
MA in Publishing, with book history modules Oxford Brookes University
MSc in Material Cultures and the History of the Book, CHB, University of Edinburgh
"Book and Byte: Book and Digital Media Studies," Master's Programme at Leiden University
Book and Manuscript Studies, MA Programme at University of Amsterdam
Traditional graduate degree programs with strong "book studies" components, Center for the Book, University of Iowa
Book and Media Studies undergraduate program, University of St. Michael's College, University of Toronto
London Rare Books School. Institute of English Studies, University of London
Non-Degree Programs
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. 2010 Course Schedule
Book History Colloquium at Columbia, Spring 2010 schedule
Rutgers Seminar in the History of the Book, 2009-2010
Rare Book School at the University of Virginia. Course schedule for 2010
Media, Communication and Sociology Research Seminars 2009-2010 at Queen Margaret University. Schedule for 2010
Le livre et l'imprimé engagés : agents, stratégies, pratiques et réseaux. University of Sherbrooke. Program. 26 February 2010.
Joint Journalism Historians Conference, CUNY, New York, 13 March 2010
Retailing and Distribution of Books and Printed Material: Historical Perspectives, CHORD Workshop, U. of Wolverhampton, 17 March 2010
Correspondence: Travel, Writing, and Literatures of Exploration, c. 1750-c. 1850, University of Edinburgh, 7-10 April 2010
Conference on Intellectual Property. Iona College, New Rochelle, New York. 30 April-1 May 2010
Transcending Boundaries in Europe in the Period of the Belle Epoque, Mons, France, 20-21 May 2010
Reading and Writing in Prison, an Interdisciplinary Conference. Edinburgh Napier University, 4-6 June 2010.
Future of Reading. Rochester Institute of Technology. 9-12 June 2010
Symposium. CNRS Sociology Library. Paris, 10-11 June 2010
The Global American South and Early Print Culture. American Antiquarian Society. 14-18 June 2010
Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching and Research. American Antiquarian Society. 20-25 June 2010
Politics, Libraries and Culture: Historical Perspectives. Library History Roundtable Research Forum. ALA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 24-29 June 2010
London Rare Books School. 28 June-2 July 2010
Records, Archives and Technology: Interdependence over Time, I-CHORA conference, London, 1-3 July 2010
The Book Trade in Early Modern Britain, Print Networks Conference, 6-7 July 2010
To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored Books. BSANZ Conference, 14-16 July 2010
Edinburgh Book History Seminars: Material Culture, Centre for the History of the Book, 16-18 July 2010
SALALM LV Pre-Conference Workshop. History of the Book in Mexico. John Carter Brown Library, 22 July 2010
Byron and the Book. International Byron Society Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, 26-31 July 2010
SHARP 2010: Book Culture from Below Helsinki, Finland, 17-21 August 2010
Mark Twain/Leo Tolstoy Editorial Institute at Boston University, 20-22 August 2010
The Material Book and the Historical Disciplines: Convergences and Conflicts. SHARP session at International Committee of Historical Sciences, Amsterdam, 26 August 2010
The Perils of Print Culture, Trinity College Dublin, 10-12 September 2010
Libraries in the History of Print Culture, Madison, Wisconsin, 10-12 September 2010
Material Cultures of Periodicals. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference. Yale University, 11-12 September 2010
Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture. Victoria University in the University of Toronto, 22-24 October 2010
Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites. University of Delaware. Winterthur Museum. 7-9 October 2010
Editing Modernism in Canada: Conference on Editorial Problems. University of Toronto, 23-24 October 2010
William Morris Society. MLA Annual Convention, 6-9 January 2011. 2 sessions (See CFP, below)
MLA Annual Convention. 5-8 January 2012 (See CFP, below)
Byron and the Book. International Byron Society Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Submission deadline: 15 February 2010
To Deprave and Corrupt: Forbidden, Hidden and Censored Books. BSANZ Conference, 14-16 July 2010. Submit abstracts by 26 February 2010
Patricia Fleming Visiting Fellowship in Bibliography and Book History. University of Toronto. Submit proposal packet by 28 February 2010
The Book Trade in Early Modern Britain, Print Networks Conference, 6-7 July 2010. Submit abstracts or applications for Conference Fellowships by 28 February 2010
Reading and Writing in Prison. Edinburgh Napier University. Submit abstract by 1 March 2010
Editing Modernism in Canada Post-doctoral Fellowship. University of Toronto. Application deadline 1 March 2010
Editing Modernism in Canada MA and PhD stipends. University of Toronto. Application deadline 1 March 2010
Interpreting Historical Images for Teaching and Research. American Antiquarian Society. 20-25 June 2010. Application deadline 1 March 2010
Mark Twain/Leo Tolstoy Editorial Institute at Boston University. Submission deadline 5 March 2010
Editing Modernism in Canada: Conference on Editorial Problems. Submission deadline 15 March 2010
Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites. University of Delaware. Winterthur Museum. 7-9 October 2010. Proposal deadline 15 March 2010
Print Culture in Undergraduate Literary Study. MLA Convention 2011. Proposals due 15 March 2010
Managing Information. SHARP/MLA Division on Restoration & Early 18th-C. Literature collaborataive panel. MLA Convention 2011. Abstracts due 15 March 2010
William Morris Society. MLA Convention 2011. William Morris and the Arts; Pre-Raphaelite Uses of the Past. Proposal deadline 20 March 2010
DeLong Prize Competition. Prize awarded by SHARP. Submission deadline 31 March 2010
Symposium. CNRS Sociology Library. Paris, 10-11 June 2010. Submit proposals by 31 March 2010
VanArsdal Prize. Graduate essay prize, Texas State University. Submission deadline 1 April 2010
John "Bud" Velde Visiting Scholars Program. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Application deadline 2 April 2010
James P. Danky Fellowship. Applications due 1 May 2010
ASIST History Fund Research Award and Research Paper Award. Applications due 1 July 2010
Pre-Raphaelite Audiences: Readers, Viewers, Critics. SHARP collaborative panel with William Morris Society. MLA Convention 2012. Proposal deadline 15 March 2011
Ph.D. Scholarship.Nineteenth-Century Communications Networks. Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Applications reviewed until the position is filled.
Old Left, New Modernisms. Special issue of Canadian Literature. Submission deadline: 1 June 2010
English Catholic Women Writers, 1660-1829. Special issue of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Submit abstracts by 1 June 2011
Reading Experience Database project, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1945
Library and Information History. See journal website for more information.
Reception: Texts, Readers, Audiences, History. Volume 2. See journal website for more information
History of the Book in the West (Ashgate Publishing)
Library of the Written Word (Brill)
Material Texts (Penn Press)
Oxford Companion to the Book. See site for introductory price through 28 February 2010
Penn State Series in the History of the Book (Penn State Press)
Series on Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Book History (Brepols Publishers, Belgium)
Studies in Book and Print Culture (University of Toronto Press)
Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press)
Studies in the History of MSS and Printed Books (EBS)
American Journalism
American Periodicals
Bibliologia : An International Journal of Bibliography, Library Science, History of Typography and the Book
The Book Collector
Book History, SHARP's journal seeks submissions
Convergence: A Journal of Research into New Media
Discipline del libro
Fine Books & Collections (formerly OP)
Journal of the Early Book Society
Journal of the Printing Historical Society
Libraries and the Cultural Record
The Library
The Library Quarterly
Library and Information History
Media History
Media History Monographs, online journal
Mémoires du livre, online journal
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America
Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada (now freely available online in full text)
Paradigm: Journal of the Textbook Colloquium
Printing History, journal of the APHA
Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society
Publishing History (with article index)
Quadrat
Rare Book Review
Studies in Bibliography
Victorian Periodicals Review
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