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CoOL (Conservation OnLine)

A project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, CoOL is a full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. CoOL is also home to the arcvhives of many book-related listservs, and Waler Henry maintains a wide array of links to people and organizations.

Book Arts Web

This is the home of the Book Arts Web which features links to a large selection of book arts related sites on the web, including educational opportunities, professional organizations, tutorials, reference materials, and galleries with images.

This is also the home of the Book_Arts-L FAQ which features full subscription information for this listserv of almost 1500 individuals but also the full archives organized by year, then month. They are also fully searchable and contain a treasure trove of all kinds of technical tips, announcements, and helpful banter.

Guild of Bookworkers

"The Guild of Book Workers was founded in 1906 to "establish and maintain a feeling of kinship and mutual interest among workers in the several hand book crafts." Among its early members are well-known artist-craft workers such as bookbinder Edith Diehl and printers and typographers W.A. Dwiggins and Frederic W. Goudy.

The Guild still believes, as did its founders, that there is a responsibility among civilized people to sustain the crafts involved with the production of fine books. Its members hope to broaden public awareness of the hand book arts, to stimulate commissions of fine bindings, and to stress the need for sound book conservation and restoration."

RBMS

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) plays a leading role in the local, national, and international special collections communities. It strives to represent and promote the interests of librarians, curators, and other specialists concerned with the acquisition, organization, security, preservation, administration, and use of special collections, including rare printed books, manuscripts, archives, graphics, music, and ephemera. The Section web site is rich in links to Special Collections, online exhibitions, booksellers, and more.

SHARP

The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing was created in 1991 to provide a global network for book historians, who until then had usually worked in isolation. SHARP now has over 1000 members in over 20 countries, including professors of literature, historians, librarians, publishing professionals, sociologists, bibliophiles, classicists, booksellers, art historians, reading instructors, and independent scholars. Each year SHARP holds an annual conference that brings many of these scholars together for stimulating discussion of an enormously wide range of issues. The Society's homepage has hundreds of useful links.

Also home to SHARP-L, an open listserv.

Vandercook Press Information

A Vandercook Proof Press resource operated by printer Paul Moxon. The site includes information on manufacture, serial numbers, specifications, and tools associated with Vandercook presses as well as articles and a bibliography.