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Archives
Book Arts
- Book Arts League
A local non-profit organization dedicated to furthering the traditional and contemporary arts and crafts of letterpress printing, calligraphy, bookbinding, graphic design, typography and papermaking
- The Book Arts Web
Gallery, extensive links, and Book_Arts-L listserv archive
- Califia Books
A distributor of Fine Press, Letterpress, and Artists' Books
- Digital Books About Books
Oak Knoll Press has compiled this list (with links) of digital books about books available for free on the Internet; topics are varied and include book binding, design, illustration, history of printing, typography, and writing and calligraphy
- Guild of Book Workers
A national non-profit organization for all the book arts
- Women's Studio Workshop Digital Archive of Artists Books
Allows you to browse, read and download over 60 digital facsimiles of artists books published by the WSW over the last quarter of a century
Collecting
- Bibliomania
"Everything you want to know about acquiring and maintaining a book collection"
- Caring for Your Collections
Library of Congress site covering the care, handling, and storage of a wide range of media including books, manuscripts, periodicals, films, and photographs
- ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers)
- IOBA (Independent Online Booksellers Association) An excellent resource providing links to many book related sites including Archival Supplies, Auctions and Sales, Bibliographic Information, Book Care & Repair, Bookseller Directories, Multi-Dealer Databases, and much more
- Measuring Worth
A website that allows you to calculate the relative value of U.S. dollar amounts from 1790-2006
- Your Old Books
Covers frequently asked questions about rare books and book values
Continuing Education
- Byzantine Paleography
A site designed for the beginning Byzantine paleographer
- Ductus
An online course in paleography
- English Handwriting 1500-1700
A free online course in English paleography
- Rare Book School
Based at the University of Virginia, RBS is a non-profit educational institute that offers one week classes in the history of books, printing, and related subjects
- Penland School of Crafts
A national school for craft education, Penland offers one, two, and eight week classes in books and paper, printmaking, photography and other crafts
Copyright
- U.S. Copyright Office
Answers frequently asked questions and provides information on searching copyright records and registering work
Digital Facsimiles (individual books and mss as well as research databases)
- An Analytic Bibliography of On-line Neo-Latin Texts
Provides links to free electronic texts of over 8800 printed Latin books from the inunabula period onwards; covers all subjects but is especially rich in medicine and science
- The Burnet Psalter
Digital images of the pages of this 15th century psalter
- Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG)
The Digital Abbey Library of St. Gallen provides access to over 100 medieval codices and includes high resolution images of over 40,000 pages
- Corsair: The Online Research Resource of The Pierpont Morgan Library
Thousands of digital images from the Library's collection of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
- Digital Scriptorium
A prototype image database and visual union catalog of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts
- The Domesday Book
A digital facsimile of the Domesday Book, one of the earliest surviving public records in Great Britain
- Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Provides digital facsimiles of over eighty early manuscripts held at Oxford
- Internet Library of Early Journals
A digital library consisting of the first twenty years of publication of three 18th century journals (Gentleman's Magazine, The Annual Register, and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society) as well as three 19th century journals (Notes and Queries, The Builder, and Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine)
- Rare Book Room
Allows the visitor to examine and read digital facsimiles of over 400 of the world's greatest books.
- Repertorium Commentationum a Societatibus Litterariis Editarum, Secundum Disciplinarum Ordinem
Compiled by Jeremias David Reuss and published in 1801-21, this 16 volume "Index of Articles published by Scholarly Societies, arranged by discipline" covers all scientific disciplines and has been called the 17th-18th century equivalent of the Royal Society Catalogue of Scientific Papers
- The Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive
A watermarks database with over 2500 images and records
- University of Colorado Digital Sheet Music Collection
Provides access to digital images of sheet music published between 1890 and 1922
- Women's Studio Workshop Digital Archive of Artists Books
Allows you to browse, read and download over 60 digital facsimiles of artists books published by the WSW over the last quarter of a century
Exhibits
- Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web
Maintained by the Smithsonian Institute, this site provides links to online exhibits created by libraries and archives. The database is searchable by exhibit title, institution, or subject.
History of the Book
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Aspects of the Victorian Book
Hosted by the British Library, this site provides an excellent overview of the publication and production of Victorian Books
Medieval Resources
Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
The AAC is a national club devoted to mountaineering and climbing; their site is home to resources for climbers and information on local and national events and programs
- Climbing Area Index to Guides and Magazines
Helpful in locating articles in climbing literature. Database is also available in a searchable version (by keyword, state, foreign country, or year)
Organizations and Societies
Photography
Security and Theft Prevention
- Art Theft Program
This FBI site provides news, legislation, theft notices and recoveries, and links to related sites on stolen art (including rare books and manuscripts)
- Museum Security Network
Provides reports of cultural property incidents such as fire, forgery, theft, and looting in wartime
- Recover Lost and Stolen Documents
This National Archives site encourages the public to assist in the identification and recovery of lost and stolen materials; provides a list of materials known missing
- Stolen Books Database
Database is maintained by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
Special Collections in the News
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