Week 1: Aug 31

Introduction

Course outline: readings and assignments.

Rare book terminology

Tour of Rare Book Room

Readings:

• Definition of Descriptive Bibliography by Terry Belanger http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm

Background:

McKenzie, D.F. “The Book as an expressive form” part 1 in Bibliography and the Sociology of Texts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999): 1-30. you will find all but the last page of the article at catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/98031000.pdf

Week 2: Sept 7

More on Format

How to Operate a Book [video]

Constructing your own formats and signatures 

So What are Rare Books & Special Collections?

Responsibility of RB Librarian /Curator

Creating Analytic Bibliographies

Progressive Descriptive Analysis Assignment starts – bring your book to class

Readings:

• Chappell – Chapter 1

• Definition of Descriptive Bibliography by Terry Belanger http://www.bibsocamer.org/bibdef.htm

• Clement, Richard W. “A Survey of Antique, Medieval, and Renaissance Book Production.” Art into life: collected papers from the kresge art museum medieval symposia. edited by Carol Garrett Fisher and Kathleen L. Scott East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 1995 [electronic resource] available through NetLibrary and KentLINK or at http://works.bepress.com/richard_clement/3/

• McKerrow, Ronald B. . Chapter 3: Printed Book and its Parts. Some Bibliographical Terms Explained; Chapter 4: More About Imposition, et.al.; and Chapter 5: Early Printing Press. In  An Introduction to Bibliography pp. 25-52; [e-reserve]

• Gaskell, Philip. ”A nomenclature for Letter-forms of Roman Type.” The Library Fifth Series XXIX No. 1 (March 1974): 42-51. [e-reserve]

OPTIONAL

• Weismann, Stephen. “What Use is Bibliography” in The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America v89 (June 1995) 133-148 [e-reserve]

Bibliographic Description – different styles and varieties

 The anatomy of a book [video]

Readings:

• Bowers, Fredson “Bibliography and Modern Librarianship,” from Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing pp. 75-93. [e-reserve]

• Ray, Gordon N. “The Importance of Original Editions,” from Books as a Way of Life pp. 167-184. [e-reserve]

• Davies, Martin. “A Tale of Two Aesops” The Library 7^th Series 7 No. 3 (Sept 2006): 259-288 (Available through KentLink in EJC)

• Gaskell, Philip. “A New Introduction to Bibliography” pp. 40-56; 78-141 [reserve]

• Ascher, James P. “ Toward Bibliography, or, Organic Growth in the Bibliographic Record,” RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage, 10, 2 (Fall, 2009): 95-110,

Optional Reading:

• Tanselle, G. Thomas “A Brief History of the English Short-Title Catalogue in North America” in – The English short-title catalogue: past, present, future / edited by Henry L. Snyder and Michael S. Smith New York:AMS Press, c2003. [e-reserve]

• Smith, Michael S. “Doing Research with the ESTC: A Ph.D. Student's Perspective” in The English short-title catalogue: past, present, future / edited by Henry L. Snyder and Michael S. Smith New York:AMS Press, c2003. [e-reserve]

Week 4 Sept 21

Bibliographic Description continued 

Guest Lecture – Kate Medicus – Rare Book Cataloger - KSU

Cataloging policies

Bibliographic Description

Analyzing Rare Book Catalogue Records 

QUIZ – TERMINOLOGY

Readings:

• Traister, Daniel. “Rare Book Collections: The Need for Interpretation.” Wilson Library Bulletin 58 No. 2 (Oct 1983): 115-119.
• Mandelbrote, Giles. “A New Edition of The Distribution of Books by Catalogue: Problems and Prospects.” The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 89 (Dec 1995): 399-408 [e-reserve]
• Allen, Susan M. “Rare Books and the College Library: Current Practices in Marrying Undergraduates to Special Collections.”  RBML (Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship ) 13 no. 2 p 110-119 available on the web http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/13-2/backissuesrbml.cfm

• Krummel, D.W. ”Introduction” and “Scope” in Bibliographies: Their Aims and Methods. NY: Mansell Publishing Ltd, 1984, pages 1-13 and 26-39. [e-reserve]

• Oyens, Felix de Marez “The Toil of Incunable Cataloging” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 81 (1981): 37-57. [e-reserve]

REVIEW

•  RBMS Guidelines: Competencies for Special Collections Professionals http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/comp4specollect.cfm

Timothy Barrett - McArthur Fellow - Center for the Book U Iowa www.macfound.org

Week 5 Sept 28

Reference Tools

Reference Tools

What are Researchers doing in Rare Book / Special Collections Rooms?

Dealer catalogs

 Video "How paper is made"

Readings:

• McMurtire, Douglas C. “Locating the Printed Source Materials for United States History.” The Mississippi Valley Historical Review 31 no. 3 (Dec 1944): 369-406 [available through KentLink]

• Traister, Daniel. “Public Services and Outreach in Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections.”  Library Trends 52 no. 1 (Summer 2003): 87-108. [Available through KentLink]

• Traister, Daniel. “The Rare Book Librarian’s Day.”  Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship  1 no 2 (fall 1986) pp. 93-106. [e-reserve]

• Blouin, Francis X Jr. “Thoughts on Special Collections and Our Research Communities.” RBM 11 No. 1 (Spring 2010): 23-31. [on e-reserve]

• Among the Gently Mad: Perspectives and Strategies for the Book Hunter in the Twenty-first Century Nicholas A. Basbanes NY: Henry Holt and Company 2002 – read Chapter 1 [e-reserve]

• The Scholar Adventurers Richard D. Altick NY: Macmillan Paperbacks, 1950 – read Introduction [e-reserve]

Optional readings:

• Enniss, Stephen “The Role of the Artifact in a Facsimile Age” RBM 1 no. 1 (Spring 2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/1-1/backissuesvol.cfm

ESTC

BYU History of the Book http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=70183&sid=519800

Early English Books Online - EEBO (see KSU Library Databases)

Week 6 Oct 5 - More Reference Tools

Reference tools continued

Public Service & Reference

Reading hand-written documents or "modern" manuscripts

Practice Reference Questions 

Readings

• Barlow, William P. Jr. “Book Catalogues,” in Collectible Books: Some New Paths ed by Jean Peters (R R Bowker, 1979) p 177-197[e-reserve]

• Carter, John. “Book Auctions.” Library Trends 9 No. 4 (April 1961): 471-482 [e-reserve]

• Howsam, Leslie. “Disciplinary Boundaries.” In Old Books and New Histories: An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006, p3-15 plus notes. [e-reserve]

• Gregory, Dan. ”Devil in the Details.” Fine Books & Collections. 6 No. 4 (No. 34) July/Aug 2005): 27-31. [e-reserve]

• Tanselle, G. Thomas. Bibliographers and the Library” in Literature and Artifacts Charlottesville: The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1998 p24-40 [e-reserve]

• Whiteman, Bruce. “Why I Hate Booksellers’ Catalogues (Not Really….Well, Maybe Sometimes.” RBM 10 No. 2 (Fall 2009): 144-15  http://rbm.acrl.org/content/by/year

Review:

• “Interlibrary Loan of Rare and Unique Materials, Guidelines for the” http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/rareguidelines.cfm (June 2004) C&RL News (October 2004) p544-547

• Read the Introduction:  Celebrating Research available at http://www.celebratingresearch.org/

OPTIONAL:

• National Archives of the UK Palaeolography Tutorial http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/default.htm

PRACTICE reading the documents, read the textual materials associated with this part of their website (as assigned)

BYU History of the Book http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=70183&sid=519800

Week 7 Oct 12

Medieval Manuscript: Art & Function (video)

Medieval Manuscripts & Early Printing

Progressive Descriptive Analysis Assignment Due next week

Readings:

• Chappell chapters 2 & 3

• Byrd, Robert L. "One Day…It Will Be Otherwise:” Changing the Reputation and the Reality of Special Collections” RBM 2 no. 2 (Fall 2001)  available at http://rbm.acrl.org/content/by/year

• Nichols. Stephen G. "Born Medieval": MSS. in the Digital Scriptorium” Journal of Electronic Publishing 11 No. 1 (Winter 2008) [Available through KentLink]

• Metzger, Bruce M. “The Making of Ancient Books” Ch. 4 in Manuscripts of the Greek Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981: 14-19. [e-reserve]

• Horn, Walter and Ernest Born. “The Medieval Monastery as a Setting for the Production of Manuscripts.” The Journal of the Walters Art Gallery  44 (1986): 16-47 (available through Kentlink)

OPTIONAL

• Allen, Greer. “The Design and Printing of Library Exhibition Catalogues.” Rare Books & Manuscript Librarianship 5 No.2 (1990): 77-84 [e-reserve]

• “The Department of Manuscripts,”  The Book Collector v45 n1 (Spring 1996): 9-23 [e-reserve]

Review        

• Borrowing and Lending Special Collections Materials for Exhibition, Guidelines for  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/standards/borrowguide.cfm  or in C&RL News (College & Research Libraries News) (June 2005): available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/index.cfm

and the digital project http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/digitalproduct1.html

Mercurius Politicus - Reuse of woodcuts   http://mercuriuspoliticus.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/recycled-woodcuts-part-2/

Week 8 Oct 19

Incunabula

Incunabula

Preservation & Conservation

 From Punch to Type (video)

Progressive Descriptive Analysis Assignment Due

Readings:

• Chappell chapter 4

• Adams, Randall G “Librarians as enemies of books” Library Quarterly 7 (1937):317-331 [e-reserve]

• An Interview with Yasmeen Khan, Senior Rare Book Conservator at the Library of Congress (12/07/2011 by Francisco Macías)  http://blogs.loc.gov/law/2011/12/an-interview-with-yasmeen-khan-senior-rare-book-conservator-at-the-library-of-congress/

• Dunlap, David W. "Types with Plenty of Character" NYT 23 December 2001  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/24/arts/design/printing-for-kingdom-empire-republic-review.html

• Edwards, Karen. “Rip, Slash, and Tear: Can Plundering Books be a Form of Preservation?” Fine Books & Collections 5 No. 5 (Sept-Oct 2007): 44-49. [e-reserve]

• Fleck, Cathleen A. and Flora Ward. “More Pieces of the Conradian Bible Puzzle (W.152) Coming Together.” The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 62 (2004): 199-202 [available through KentLink]

• Hain, Jennifer. “A Brief Look at Recent Developments in the Preservation and Conservation of Special Collections.” Library Trends  52 no.1 (Summer 2003): 112-17.

• Wurzburger, Marilyn. “Current Security Practice in College and University Special Collections.” Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship 3 no.1 (Spring 1988): 43-57 [e-reserve]

OPTIONAL

• Allen, Susan M. “Preventing Theft in Academic Libraries and Special Collections.”  Library & Archival Security 14 no. 1 (1997): 29-43. [e-reserve]

• Starmer Mary Ellen, Sara McGough Hyder, and Aimée Leverette “Rare Condition: Preservation Assessment for Rare Book Collections” RBM 6 no. 2 (Fall 2005)  available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/6-2/rbmvol6no2.cfm

• Nichols, S.G. and Smith, A “The Evidence at Hand: Report of the task force on the Artifact in Library Collections” Pub 103 Washington, D.C.: CLIR Nov 2001 available at http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/reports.html 

Websites for today's class

Early Modern Printing – Exhibition U Wash http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masctour/earlyprinting/index.html

Dawn of Western Printing – Incunabula (National Diet Library – Japan) http://www.ndl.go.jp/incunabula/e/index.html

 Typographical Desk Reference http://www.typedeskref.com/

 Atlas of Early Printing http://atlas.lib.uiowa.edu/

UT Austin - Ransom Center - Anatomy of a Page (incunabula) http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenberg/html/7.html

Week 9 Oct 26

Early printers & books

Early printers & books

Brittle Books Programs

Fonts - on YouTube

Readings

• Chappell chapters 5&6

• Duguid, Paul. “Inheritance and loss? A Brief survey of Google Books” First Monday 12 no 8 (2007) available at http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_8/duguid/index.html and analysis of comments on SHARP (to be distributed in class)

• Kilgour, Frederick G. “Printing 1400-1800” Chapter 8 The Evolution of the Book NY: Oxford University Press, 1998 p81-97 [e-reserve]

• McKitterick, David. “So Much to Learn from Each Other: The History of the Book and the History of Libraries.” Bulletin du bibliophile No. 2 (2008): 309-408. [on e-reserve]

• Martin, Shawn. EEBO, “Microfilm, and Umberto Eco: Historical Lessons and Future Decisions for Building Electronic Collections.” Microform and Imaging Review 36 No. 4 (Fall 2007): 159-164 http://repository.upenn.edu/library_papers/66/

Early English Books Online (available through KentLink)

Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011

Font Fight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6djQHeqMwQ

Week 10 Nov 2

FACSIMILE ASSIGNMENT DUE

Non-print materials

18^th and 19^th century printing and Non Print Materials

Prints & printmaking

Moving materials from general to special collections – Why & Why Not

Deaccessioning Materials

Readings:

• Chappell Chapters 7&8

• McKitterick, David. “The Survival of Books.”  The Book Collector 43 No. 1 (Spring 1994): 9-26 [e-reserve]

• Attar, K.E. “Incunabula at Senate House Library: Growth of a Collection.” Library & Information History 25 No. 2 (June 2009): 97-116. [e-reserve]

• The Island of Lost Maps: a True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey NY: Random House 2000 – read introduction and chapter 1. [e-reserve]

• Weessies, Kathleen. “The Secret Inside Your Library’s Atlases: Reexamine your collection and how to protect in – before someone else does” by  American Libraries (October 2003) p49-51 [available through KENTLink]

• Eisenstein, Elizabeth. The Printing Press as Agent of Change  pp. 3-42. [e-reserve]

• Cadell, Patrick. “Selling the Family Silver: the Temptation of the Special Collection.” Bulletin du bibliophile (2009-2): 217-222.

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OPTIONAL

• “Negotiating New Borders for Special Collections” (Cathy Henderson) RBML 14 no. 1 (1999): 9-17 available through ALA website http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/14-1/backissuesrbml.cfm

• The Victorian Web http://www.victorianweb.org/index.html - information about the novel and printing in the 19th century 

• Merriam Webster Visual Dictionary (has images of printing processes)- http://visual.merriam-webster.com

• IPI Graphic Atlas http://www.graphicsatlas.org/

• articles on printmaking http://www.artelino.com/articles

• History of the Book / Typography, Amsterdam's photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/bookhistorian/

YouTube videos about printing:

• Relief http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0skLwaFpn0

• Intaglio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNKn4PORGBI

• Lithography: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHw5_1Hopsc

• Woodblock printing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dliF74ojOho

Blank Books: http://prescan.wordpress.com/2011/10/18/video-the-blank-history-of-the-blank-book/

Watch webcasts

Write Review - due in class

Guest Speaker - Dr. Elizabeth Howard - Institute for Bibliography and Editing at KSU Lecture on Textual Editions and Beowulf

Watch two of the three following webcasts:

 TITLE: Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth Eisenstein - Presentation of Papers - SPEAKER: various speakers EVENT DATE: 11/02/2007 RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes at the Library of Congress

   TITLE: Agent of Change: Print Culture Studies After Elizabeth Eisenstein - Panel Discussion  SPEAKER: various speakers EVENT DATE: 11/02/2007 RUNNING TIME: 39 minutes  at the Library of Congress

 TITLE: Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World SPEAKER: Nicholas Basbanes EVENT DATE: 01/31/2006 RUNNING TIME: 56 minutes  at the Library of Congress

Anthony Grafton Codex in Crisis Talk at Google

http://uchiblogo.uchicago.edu/archives/2009/03/audiovisuals_co.html

Thomas P. Campbell (Director) and Timothy B. Husband (Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters) discuss Herman, Paul, and Jean Limbourg's Belles Heures of Jean of France, Duc of Berry (54.1.1) (2010). Exhibition and Tour  at MMA http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/deth/hd_deth.htm

Write a review of the two webcasts you watched. Compare and contrast the themes presented, what the presentations taught you about the history of books. Why is it important to study Books as objects and texts? –(3-5 pages) due Nov 9

NOTE: The book: Agent of Change is on reserve

Be prepared to discuss these webcasts in class

Electronic Texts - Digitization, Editing, and Commentary

Codex Sinaiticus http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2009/07/06/2009-07-06_oldest_bible_the_codex_sinaiticus_.html

• http://www.codexsinaiticus.org/en/

• and a discussion on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd_x1yuIrZ8 and

• a history of its discovery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5BM5KnX0ns

Johnson, Dirk. "Book Lovers Fear Dim Future for Notes in the Margins." NYT Books (20 Feb 2011) http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/21/books/21margin.html

Week 12 Nov 16

Guest Lecturer – Cara Gilgenbach – Head Special Collections – KSU

Collection Development, Rare vs. Special

Donor Relations, Development & Fundraising, deeds of gift, acquisition & appraisal

Inclusive vs. exclusive rare book / special collections

 Promotion and Outreach

Faculty as Collectors and Donors

Outreach and Promotion of Rare Book and Special Collections

Exhibits

Readings:

• De Hamel, Christopher ”Tangible Artifacts” RBM 1 no.l 1 available on line at http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlpubs/rbm/rbm.cfm

• Streit, Samuel Allen. “All That Glitters: Fund Raising for Special Collections in Academic Libraries.”  Rare Books & Manuscript Librarianship 3 no. 1 (Spring 1988): 31-41. [e-reserve]

• Brewer, Frances J. “Friends of the Library and Other Benefactors.” Library Trends 9 no. 4 (1961): 453-465 [e-reserve]

• Smyth, Elaine B. “A Practical Approach to Writing a Collection Development Policy” RBML 14 no. 1 (Fall 1999) available at http://rbm.acrl.org/content/by/year  

• Bowers, Fredson. “Purposes of Descriptive Bibliography with Some Remarks on Method.” in Essays in Bibliography, Text, and Editing  pp. 111-134. [e-reserve]

OPTIONAL

• Juarez, Miguel. "Donor Relations for Librarians."  Art Documentation: Bulletin of the Art Libraries Society of North America  24 no 1 (Spring 2005): 38-41 [available through KentLink]

•  Kertesz, C. “The Unwanted Gift: When Saying No Thanks Isn’t Enough” American Libraries 32 no 3 (March 2001): 34-37 [available through KentLink

REVIEW:

• ACRL Code of Ethics for Special Collections Librarians (October 2003) available at http://www.rbms.info/standards/code_of_ethics.shtml 

• ACRL Statement on Professional Development (2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/whitepapers/acrlstatement.cfm

• Batuman, Elif. “Kafka’s Last Trial.” New York Times Magazine (22 Sept 2010) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26kafka-t.html

Modern Printers and Modern Facsimiles

Modern manuscripts & collections

The Profession and Copyright

YouTubeVideo: How a Book is Made (from EB)

Readings:

• Chappell chapters 9 & 10

• Levy, David M.” Contemplating Scholarship in the Digital Age” RBM 6 no. 2 (Fall 2005) available at  http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/2-1/backissuesvol.cfm

• Rendell, Kenneth W. “The Future of the Manuscript and Rare Book Business” RBM  2 no. 1 (Spring 2001) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/2-1/backissuesvol.cfm  

• Browar, Lisa ,Cathy Henderson, Michael North, and Tara Wenger "Licensing the Use of Special Collections Materials." RBM 3 no. 2 (Fall 2002) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/3-2/rbmvol3no2.cfm

• Reagan, Katherine. “Books In The Age Of Anxiety” presentation at the “Books in Hard Times” Grolier Club Symposium 22 September 2009 http://www.grolierclub.org/Files/3.2.ReaganDESIGNED.pdf

OPTIONAL :

• Sax, Joseph L. “ Not So Public: Access to Collections” RBM 1 no. 2 (Fall 2000) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/1-2/backissuesvol.cfm 

• Townsend, Robert B. “Saving Orphans: Copyright Office Proposes a Solution” News column Perspectives (AHA) March 2006 available at http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2006/0603/0603new3.cfm

The Journal of Electronic Publishing Vol 13 Issue 2 (Fall 2010) is devoted to  the future of University Presses. The articles provide food for thought in this era of changing formats and functions. http://www.journalofelectronicpublishing.org/

• Copyright Chart - Peter Hirtle http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm

• Library of Congress Section 108 (Fair Use) Spinner http://www.librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

• ALA Copyright Slider http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

• Duke University Law - Copyright Primer http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/comics/digital.php

• Copyright in the UK http://www.bl.uk/ip/

• Library of Congress "Taking the Mystery out of Copyright" http://www.loc.gov/teachers/copyrightmystery/#

The Exquisite Corpse Adventure. Illustrator Calef Brown. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, [2010] http://www.read.gov/exquisite-corpse/Book/#page/2/mode/2up - an interactive books (available through the Library of Congress www.read.gov 

Week 14 Dec 2 –  

Bibliophilic Societies

Digital World & Special Collections

Bibliophilic Societies and Rare Book Organizations

Continuing Education

Digital world & Special Collections

Ethics, Responsibilities & Censorship

Special users

Protecting the Word: Bookbindings of the Morgan Library (video) http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=13

Readings:

• Chappell chapter 11

• Holzenberg, Eric “Second-Hand and Antiquarian Books on the Internet” RBM  2 no.1 (Spring 2001) available at http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/rbm/2-1/backissuesvol.cfm

•  Tanselle, G. Thomas. “Text and Artifacts in the Electronic Era.” ( 21st C issue 3:2 available at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-3.2/tanselle.html also in Common Knowledge 2.3 (1993) 172-177.

• Baker, Nicholson. “The Charms of Wikipedia.” The New York Review of Books (March 20, 2008) [e-reserve]

• Henschke, Ekkehard. ”Digitising the Hand-Written Bible: The Codex Sinaiticus, its History and Modern Presentation” Libri  57 (2007): 45-51. [e-reserve]

• Sturdivant, James. “Down the Long Tail: Oak Knoll Makes Big Business Out of Niche Publishing.” Book Business (Sept 1, 2008) http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/article/oak-knoll-makes-big-business-out-niche-publishing-119077_1.html

• The Infinite Library: Old Worlds and New: Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections in the Twenty-first Century. Essays from the Fleur Cowles Symposium 2000 – Libraries & Culture 37 No. 1 (Feb 2002) [available through Kentlink]

What is the future of the book??

Miniature Books http://www.abebooks.co.uk/books/miniature-miniaturization-tiny-prayer-bindings/small-books.shtml

Week 15 Dec 9

Editions & Formats assignment due along with revised and corrected Progressive Description

Class presentations

Discussion about Editions, Impressions, States