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"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)

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.
Call for nominations for leadership positions in SHARP.
SHARP has just concluded its fabulous 2009 conference hosted by the University of Toronto. Check out the slide show!
Start planning now for SHARP 2010 in Helsinki, Finland, whose theme will be, "Book Culture from Below." In the meantime, the associated blog, "Book History Up North," highlights studies in Scandinavian print and manuscript culture.
Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board
The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history. Congratulations to Matthew Kirschenbaum, this year's winner!
SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2009
SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives
Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal
SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals
Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections: British Book Trade Archives (1830-1939); Publishers' Archives: Albinski List (19th & 20th c., US); Canadian Publishers' Records Database; Accessions to UK Repositories: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007; 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

Research Resources Online
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Research Resources Online: Book History Online: An International Bibliography (Koninklijke Bibliotheek); ABC for Book Collectors (classic glossary, 8th ed., ILAB); The Duke Papyrus Archive; Bibliopolis: History of the Printed Book in the Netherlands; British Book Trade Index (BBTI); 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); Reading Experience Database, 1450-1945; Bibliography for Western Book History (Richard Clement, University of Kansas); "Histories of U.S. Publishers" and "Index of Modern Paperback Publishers" (Russell Barnes, Hyde Park Books, Idaho); Macmillan News Archive, 1962-91; Early Modern Online Bibliography; Private Libraries in Renaissance England: PLRE.Folger database & PLRE Project; DEEP: Database of Early English Playbooks; HENRIK: Books and their Owners in Finland to 1809 (Finnish Lit. Soc. & Project Hendrik); Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading; Dutch Museum of the Book (Museum Meermanno) catalogue; Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston); Database of American Libraries before 1876 (Davies Project, Princeton); Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland; American Library Association archives (University of Illinois); The Atlas of Early Printing (U. of Iowa Libraries); Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930 (University of Alabama); Database of Bookbindings (British Library); Waddleton Chronology of Colour Printed Illustrations (Norman Waddleton); Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustration (Cardiff University); Historybooks: British Historians & the Book 1850-1950 (Leslie Howsam); 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-c. American Children's Book Trade Directory (American Antiquarian Society); 19th-c. Books on Publishing and the Book Trade (searchable catalogue); Bibliography of British Books for Children & Adolescents 1470-1770 (Ruth Bottigheimer, SUNY); The Dicey and Marshall Catalogue (London, 1764) (R. C. Simmons); Descriptive catalogue of major UK lectures in bibliography, 1895-present (Ian Gadd); Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book Culture (1989-2003) (James E. May); Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources (Laura Sue Fuderer); The Quarterly Review Archive (Jonathan Cutmore); Obscure Contributors to 19th-century Periodicals; The Curran Index to Wellesley Revisions (Victorian periodicals); Index to reviews and reviewers in the Athenaeum: 1830-70 and 1872-86; Internet Library of Early Journals; The Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of 18th-c. Periodicals; "The Image of France,", 1795-1880 (database of prints); The Edmonton Collection of Street Literature (Gary Kelly, Alberta); The Broadsides Collection (John Hay Library, Brown); Medieval Illustrated Manuscripts (KB and Museum Meermano); The Chapbook Collection (Lilly Library, Indiana); The Digital Scriptorium, database (UC Berkeley); Biblia Sacra bibliography of bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium
Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies: Center for the Book, Library of Congress; Research Society for Victorian Periodicals; British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century; Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (NCSE); Research Society for American Periodicals; American Journalism Historians Association; J-HISTORY, journalism history discussion; The American Newspaper Repository (Nicholson Baker; in 2004 the repository moved to Duke University Library.); Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (Duke University); International Association of Paper Historians; American Museum of Papermaking
British Association of Paper Historians; American Printing History Association; Linotype & Linotipisti (Giorgio Coraglia); Typefoundry: Documents for the History of Types and Letterforms (James Mosley); Early Book Society; "Book History and Literacies at Minnesota" (Michael Hancher); Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America; Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society; University of Iowa Center for the Book; American Museum of Papermaking; Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies; Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh; Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History (Ian Maxted); Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University; Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records; Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland; The National Print Museum of Ireland; Making Books, Shaping Readers, University College Cork; The Production and Use of English Manuscripts 1060 to 1220 (Universities of Leeds and Leicester); Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, U of London; Print Culture in New Zealand: The Otago Project; History of the Book in Canada; History of the Book in Australia; Society for Book Research in Austria; Institut d'histoire du livre, Lyons; Pecia: le manuscrit m�di�val (Jean-Luc Deuffic); Leiden Centre for the Book; Il libro antico (Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto e Graziano Ruffini); Bibliotheca Eruditionis , history of books and reading in Hungary; Bibliographical Society of America; Bibliographical Society (Great Britain); Oxford Bibliographical Society; Bibliographical Society of Canada; Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia; Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand; Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (Cardiff University); The Grolier Club; Library History Group (Great Britain); Historic Libraries Forum (UK); IFLA Library History Section; Archives of the American Library Association; Libraries Today (Canadian library history; Lorne Bruce); Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book (University of Oxford); St Bride Printing Library, London; Early Printed Books Project, University of Oxford; HoBo (formerly "History of the Book@Oxford"), book history events in the UK; Textual Studies, 1500-1800 (Kevin Curran); The Bookdealer Interviews (Sheila Markham); Cambridge Project for the Book Trust; Stationers' Hall and Stationers' company, London; Printing Historical Society, London; The London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production; The King's Printer Project: Politics, Power and the Printed Word in the Reign of James I; Printing Museum, Tokyo; Rare Images Database, Diet National Library; Japanese and Chinese Classics Database; Japan Society of Publishing Studies (Japanese language only); History of Literacy (History of Reading Special Interest Group); Recent and Current ASECS/SHARP Projects in 18th-c. print culture (2002); Urban Manuscripts Project (Ctr. for Medieval Studies, U. of York); 19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library); American Historical Print Collectors Society; International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media; Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings; Directory of Cartoon Research Libraries (Randall Scott, MSU Libraries); Melbourne Museum of Printing; William Morris Society; Museu Virtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal); Briar Press: A Letterpress Community; "Biases of the Ear and Eye" Daniel Chandler; "The World of the Renaissance Print Shop," (Merry Wiesner-Hanks, U. Wisc.-Milwaukee); "Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press in a Changing World," (Jones and Mukerji, UCSD); Book History Timetable (Cremers/Knops)

Online Exhibits
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Online Exhibits: The Gutenberg Bible at the Ransom Center; Images of Orality and Literacy in Ancient Greece; Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian; A Medieval Blockbook (Marianne Hansen); 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; Graphic Design: Typography (Jeffrey Barr, University of South Florida Libraries); BibliOdyssey; Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas (Penn); "Nineteenth-Century American Children & What They Read" (Pat Pflieger); "Nineteenth-Century Girls' Series" (Deidre Johnson); Typographical Collections, University of Amsterdam Library; Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in WWII (Book Arts Press); "The Word on the Street," broadsides in the collection of the National Library of Scotland; Concise History of the British Newspaper since 1620; "Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers" (Rebecca W. Davidson, Princeton University Library); Color Printing in the 19th Century (U. of Delaware); Finales de libro: Exposici? de colofones (University of Salamanca); The Illustrated Book, 1780-1830 (Univ. of Pennsylvania); The Keepsake for 1829 (Romantic Circles); Forget Me Not: A Hypertextual Archive (Katherine Harris); The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996 (U. of North Texas); A History of Wood Engraving (University of North Texas Libraries); Women Printers in Great Britain, 1475-1700 (Lynne Fors, UIUC); Victorian Periodicals and the Empire; "Plants in Print: The Age of Botanical Discovery," Chicago Botanic Garden; The Mosher Press (Millersville University); The History of Chinese Bookbinding (Colin Chinnery, British Library); Printing: Renaissance and Reformation (Thomas Cooper Library , Univ. of SC); Cary Graphic Arts Collection, library of printing history, Rochester Institute of Technology; Is it a Book? (Karen Drayne, Barbara Davison, Emily-Jane Dawson, U. Maryland); Bibliotheca Canadiana: A Historical Survey of Canadian Bibliography (McGill University Library)

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture
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Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture: The Tanselle Syllabi (Rare Book School); The iSchool podcast: Public lectures on book history (University of Toronto); "History of the Book" (Erik Delfino, Catholic University); "History of Books and Printing, 1800-1950," undergraduate syllabus (Daniel Traister); "Topics in the History of Books and Printing, 1400-1800," graduate seminar (Ryan and Traister, UPenn); "History of the Book, 1450 to the Present" (Joel Silver, Indiana); "Popular Fictions: Bestsellers from the Greeks to Grisham," (Ryan and Traister, UPenn); "History of the Book" (Kate Martinson, Luther College); "History of the Book," (William C. Robinson, U. of Tennessee, Knoxville); "History of the Book" (Bertrum MacDonald); "The Culture of the Book," (Nancy Mace, U.S. Naval Academy); "Technology of the Book" and web ring (Dino Felluga, Purdue University); "Cultures of the Book," bibliography and syllabus (James O'Donnell, Univ. of Pennsylvania); "The History of the Book and Its Forms," (Deborah McGrady, Tulane University); "Technologies of the Word (Robert M. Fowler, Baldwin-Wallace College); "Survey of Publishing, Text to Hypertext" (James C. Morrison, Harvard University); "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); "Readers and Reading in History" (David Nord, Indiana University); "Print, Literacy & Power in America to 1900," (Mary Kay Duggan, U.C., Berkeley); "History of Reading" (David Pearson and Nell Duke, Michigan State University); "The Profession of Authorship in 19th-Century America," (Sherry J. Linkon, Youngstown State Univ.); "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); "Street Ballads" (Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota); Knowledge, Literacy, and the Politics of Information in Early Modern England" (Sabrina Baron, University of Maryland); "Medieval Orality & Literacy" (Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv); "Shakespeare and the Material Book" (Douglas A. Brooks, Texas A&M); "Victorian Studies: Illustrated Periodicals," syllabus, bibliography (Michael Hancher, Univ. of Minnesota); "Authorship, Collaboration, and Literary Property" (Michael Gamer, U. Penn); "Transitions in Media: Manuscript to Print, 1450; Print to Digital, Today," (Mary Kay Duggan, Berkeley); "The Book as Technology and Trope," (Terry Harpold, U. of Florida); "The Rhetorics of Print/Digital Culture" (Dickie Selfe and Bill Powers, Michigan Tech)
Programs in Book History: Postgraduate Study in Material Cultures and the History of the Book, CHB, University of Edinburgh; Graduate Program in Book History and Print Culture, University of Toronto; Book and Media Studies undergraduate program, University of St. Michael's College, U. of Toronto; Master's Programme: 'Text and Book', University of Birmingham; MA in Literature and Publishing National University of Ireland at Galway; Gutenberg Institute for Book and Media Sciences, MA and PhD program (Mainz, Germany); Ph.D. minor in Print Culture History, CHPCM, University of Wisconsin; MA/PhD Program in History and Culture: Book History Concentration, Drew University; Rare Book School at the University of Virginia; Rare Book Summer School, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; "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; MA in Publishing, with book history modules Oxford Brookes University; Planned postgraduate program in History of Text Technologies Florida State University

Notices and Calls for Papers
"Victorian Networks and the Periodical Press," annual RSVP conference, Minneapolis, 21-22 August 2009

"Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time", I-CHORA conference, London, 1-3 July 2010, call for papers
Rare Book School 2009 course schedule
Popular Romance Studies conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 13-14, 2009
Reception Study Society conference, Purdue University, September 11-13, 2009, call for papers
"Reading Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century France", University of Liverpool, 20 Nov. 2009, call for papers

Best Journalism/Mass. Comm. Book of 2008 prize offered by History Division, AEJMC
Edinburgh Book History Seminars, Centre for the History of the Book, 2008-2009 schedule
Reading Experience Database project, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1945. Now live, seeks contributors.

Publishers' Series in Book History
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Library of the Written Word (Brill)

Series on Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Book History (Brepols Publishers, Belgium)

Studies in the History of MSS and Printed Books (EBS)

Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press)

Material Texts (Penn Press)

Penn State Series in the History of the Book (Penn State Press)

Studies in Book and Print Culture (University of Toronto Press)

Selected Journals
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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

M�moires 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
Notices and Calls for Papers: "Victorian Networks and the Periodical Press," annual RSVP conference, Minneapolis, 21-22 August 2009; "Records, archives and technology: interdependence over time", I-CHORA conference, London, 1-3 July 2010, call for papers; Rare Book School 2009 course schedule; Popular Romance Studies conference, Brisbane, Australia, August 13-14, 2009; Reception Study Society conference, Purdue University, September 11-13, 2009, call for papers; "Reading Anthologies in Sixteenth-Century France", University of Liverpool, 20 Nov. 2009, call for papers; Best Journalism/Mass. Comm. Book of 2008 prize offered by History Division, AEJMC; Edinburgh Book History Seminars, Centre for the History of the Book, 2008-2009 schedule; Reading Experience Database project, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1945. Now live, seeks contributors.

Publishers' Series in Book History
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Publishers' Series in Book History: Library of the Written Word (Brill); Series on Palaeography, Manuscript Studies and Book History (Brepols Publishers, Belgium); Studies in the History of MSS and Printed Books (EBS); Studies in Print Culture and the History of the Book (University of Massachusetts Press); Material Texts (Penn Press); Penn State Series in the History of the Book (Penn State Press); Studies in Book and Print Culture (University of Toronto Press)

Selected Journals
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Selected Journals: 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; M�moires 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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SHARP Web

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.

Call for nominations for leadership positions in SHARP.

SHARP has just concluded its fabulous 2009 conference hosted by the University of Toronto. Check out the slide show!

Start planning now for SHARP 2010 in Helsinki, Finland, whose theme will be, "Book Culture from Below." In the meantime, the associated blog, "Book History Up North," highlights studies in Scandinavian print and manuscript culture.

Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board

The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history. Congratulations to Matthew Kirschenbaum, this year's winner!

SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2009

SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives

Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter
Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals

Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections

Research Resources Online

Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies

Online Exhibits

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture

Programs in Book History

Publishers' Series in Book History

Selected Journals

SHARP Web

About SHARP: The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Join SHARP online! Becoming a member has never been easier, or brought so many benefits. Already a member? Manage your membership online.

Call for nominations for leadership positions in SHARP.

SHARP has just concluded its fabulous 2009 conference hosted by the University of Toronto. Check out the slide show!

Start planning now for SHARP 2010 in Helsinki, Finland, whose theme will be, "Book Culture from Below." In the meantime, the associated blog, "Book History Up North," highlights studies in Scandinavian print and manuscript culture.

Print out a SHARP flyer (in English or in French) for your library or department bulletin board

The SHARP Book Prize: a prestigious annual award for best work in book history. Congratulations to Matthew Kirschenbaum, this year's winner!

SHARP Award for Distinguished Achievement: nominations now being accepted for 2009

SHARP-L: The Electronic Conference of Book Historians, with searchable archives

Book History: SHARP's award-winning journal

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals

Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections

Research Resources Online

Book History Projects and Scholarly Societies

Online Exhibits

Teaching Resources in the History of Print Culture

Programs in Book History

Publishers' Series in Book History

Selected Journals

SHARP News: SHARP's lively quarterly newsletter
Publishers' Records || Research Resources || Projects and Societies || Exhibits || Teaching || Programs || Announcements || Series|| Journals