Special Collections Resources on the Web

The following are links to Web resources on the following topics related to rare books and special collections:

ExLibris – an electronic discussion list for special collections and rare book librarians. Includes the archives for ExLibris – courtesy of Walter Henry at Stanford University. Search all messages since the start of the electronic discussion list in 1991.
RMBS Electronic Discussion List – a list devoted to matters concerning the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Libraries Association (ALA).

Cataloguing

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger – prepared by Eric Holzenberg and Larry Creider for the 1997 Preconference workshop "Electronic Resources for the Rare Book Cataloger"
LC Thesaurus for Graphic Material: Topical Terms for Subject Access – compiled by Elizabeth Betz Parker, with an introduction by Jackie Dooley; Electronic version by Walter Henry (Stanford) and Robert MacKimmie (California Historical Society), July 1994
Relator terms
Latin Place Names – found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents in AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) form Sponsored by the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University and The Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries
Directory of Latin place names – this is a working document of the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue and is not intended to replace the lists in Orbis Latinus, Brunet, etc.
Graesse's Orbis Latinus – 1909 edition – an electronic version by Karen L Green, Dept. of History, Columbia University
EAD: (Encoded Archival Description): SGML for Archival Finding Aids

Conservation Online – remarkable Web site maintained by Walter Henry, Stanford
Articles on conservation provided at the Web site of Archival Products, Des Moines, Iowa
NEDCC Perservation Manual Online – an important text available free of charge via the main NEDCC Web site

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing
Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the World Wide Web [page removed in the fall of 2004 — Internet Archive version]
Resources for the History of Books and Printing – maintained by Daniel Traister, University of Pennsylvania.
History of the Book at Oxford and Princeton
BOOKHAD Project – support for nationwide research activities in book history and book design in the United Kingdom.

Bibliographical Society of America
Bibliographical Society, London
Studies in Bibliography – the annual publication of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. A cumulative table of contents of the Studies is available here as well as the ability to search a full-text database.

Society of American Archivists
Archives and Manuscript Collections on the Internet – maintained by Sarah Spurgin of Columbia University.
Berkeley Finding Aid Project
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) online service, Archival Research Catalog (ARC) – the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries.
Archives of the listserv for Archives and Archivists

The Printroom, a site maintained at the University of Kansas.
Introduction to Imaging: Issues in Constructing an Image Database – by Howard Besser and Jennifer Trant. A recently-issued, well-regarded brief introduction to fundamentals.