Local Book Resources
Collection of books from the Victoria and Albert Museam, The world’s greatest museum of art and design
In manuscript and print, as cultural and technological artifact, the book has provoked discussion from the early modern period through the present. This series will further our historical understanding of the book as a cultural object, a discussion made all the more relevant as text becomes an increasingly electronic medium.
University of Minnesota
Information concerning Book History at Yale, run by the Yale Working Group in Book History.
The Book History Research Network was established in 1998 by the former Book Trade History Group in co-operation with the Institute for English Studies at the School of Advanced Study at the University of London.
News and updates for the Department of English Thinking with Technology Colloquium and all interested in digital humanities developments, projects and conversations.
A blog on the preservation and persistence of the changing book
University of Virginia
We're a small think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format.
French project exploring the early history of scientific books.
A French website collecting together classic texts in library science from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
A selected list of print & history links.
A guide intended to give students in English 259/History 2321:Methods in Book History a resource for guidance in library research.
Science and the Artist's Book is an exhibition which explores links between scientific and artistic creativity through the book format.
The St. Bride LIbrary collections cover printing and related subjects: paper and binding, graphic design and typography, typefaces and calligraphy, illustration and printmaking, publishing and book-selling and the social and economic aspects of the printing, book, newspaper and magazine trades.
The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.
The primary purpose of teh center is to promote research and teaching in the history of books
On-line provenance resources
News from Special Collections at the Bodleian Libraries.
This weblog was created by Anna Battigelli (SUNY Plattsburgh) and Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University of Pennsylvania) to facilitate scholarly feedback and discussion pertaining to valuable online text-bases for the humanities, such as EEBO, ECCO, and the Burney Collection.
The Network brings together current research at Birkbeck on material texts, and provides a base for future projects and grant bids. We also hope to connect with other academic and cultural institutions.
The Museum of Writing is focused on matters central to the historical and theoretical understanding of writing from its invention to the present.
The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a collaborative effort of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that helps build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia material.
Rare Book School (RBS) provides continuing-education opportunities for students from all disciplines and levels to study the history of written, printed, and born digital materials with leading scholars and professionals in the field.
UK RED is an open-access database housed at The Open University containing over 30,000 easily searchable records documenting the history of reading in Britain from 1450 to 1945.
The Harvard Theatrum Catalogorum was launched in 2007 by Ann Blair, Morgan Sonderegger, and Adam Beaver as a scholarly resource for the Early Modernist community. In its first edition, it collates library catalogs from every major European country. In future editions, it will expand to include the Americas.