{"id":247,"date":"2017-04-26T02:27:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T02:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/lis\/?page_id=247"},"modified":"2025-10-13T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T20:12:57","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/websites\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/websites\/history\/#books\">History of Books, Printing, and Reading<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/library.illinois.edu\/infosci\/websites\/history\/#libraries\">History of Libraries<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"books\">History of Books, Printing, and Reading<\/h2>\n<p>Find primary and secondary sources for the history of books, print culture, and readers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"John Carter's classic is available for free online as a PDF through the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, courtesy of Oak Knoll Press.\" href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01CARLI_UIU\/gpjosq\/alma99853067312205899\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC for Book Collectors<\/a> The 9th edition of John Carter&#8217;s classic is available in-print through UIUC. You can also access the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20171121030905\/https:\/\/ilab.org\/download.php?object=documentation&amp;id=29\">8th edition<\/a> for free online as a PDF through the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers, courtesy of Oak Knoll Press.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Annual journal devoted to the history of the book, broadly defined.\" href=\"https:\/\/i-share-uiu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/discovery\/search?query=any,contains,1098-7371&amp;tab=LibraryCatalog&amp;search_scope=MyInstitution&amp;vid=01CARLI_UIU:CARLI_UIU&amp;lang=en&amp;offset=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Book History<\/a>\u00a0Annual journal devoted to the history of the book, broadly defined.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ndl.go.jp\/incunabula\/e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dawn of Western Printing: Incunabula<\/a><br \/>\nOnline exhibition of incunabula based on the book <em>Inkyunabura no Sekai<\/em>\u00a0(The World of Incunabula) written by Hiroharu Orita.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rmc.library.cornell.edu\/medievalbook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">From Manuscript to Print: The Evolution of the Medieval Book<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;The exhibition traces the history of the medieval book\u2014its appearance, content, audiences, and forms\u2014from the 9th to the 15th centuries.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"A digital humanities project collecting primary source evidence of reading by British subjects at home and abroad from 1450-1945.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/Arts\/reading\/UK\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Reading Experience Database (RED), 1450-1945<\/a> A digital humanities project collecting primary source evidence of reading by British subjects at home and abroad from 1450-1945.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"SHARP is a global scholarly organization for historians of print culture. The library has a subscription to their journal, Book History, and the organization also offers a discussion list, SHARP-L.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sharpweb.org\/main\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Society for the History of Authorship, Reading &amp; Publishing (SHARP)<\/a> SHARP is a global scholarly organization for historians of print culture. The library has a subscription to their journal, Book History, and the organization also offers a discussion list, SHARP-L.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"libraries\">History of Libraries<\/h2>\n<p>Find primary and secondary sources for the history of libraries.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Home of the searchable database ALB1876: American Libraries Before 1876 , which identifies 9,800 libraries by type and provides data on location, date of founding and\/or closing, and collection size. The Davies Project website also displays a variety of historic documents and photographs.\" href=\"https:\/\/daviesproject.princeton.edu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davies Project at Princeton University<\/a> Home of the searchable database ALB1876: American Libraries Before 1876, which identifies 9,800 libraries by type and provides data on location, date of founding and\/or closing, and collection size. The Davies Project website also displays a variety of historic documents and photographs.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Digitized copies of a hundred classic French LIS texts.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.enssib.fr\/bibliotheque-numerique\/index-des-collections?selecCollection=36\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Les classiques de la biblioth\u00e9conomie<\/a> Digitized copies of a hundred classic French IS texts.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"An online index to periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. A unique feature of this index is that titles are indexed back to their very first volume, but the last ten years are omitted. More than 70 library science titles are covered, including Library Journal (1876+), Library Association Record (1899+), and American Libraries (1907+).\" href=\"https:\/\/www.library.illinois.edu\/proxy\/go.php?url=https:\/\/search.proquest.com\/pao\/advanced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Periodicals Archive Online [licensed for UI]<\/a> An online index to periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. A unique feature of this index is that titles are indexed back to their very first volume, but the last ten years are omitted. More than 70 library science titles are covered, including Library Journal (1876-), Library Association Record (1890-), and American Libraries (1907-).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Includes semiannual bibliographies published by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association, as well as information about the round table and its programs.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/rt\/lhrt\/popularresources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Popular Resources for the Library History Round Table<\/a> Includes semiannual bibliographies published by the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association, as well as information about the round table and its programs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of Books, Printing, and Reading | History of Libraries History of Books, Printing, and Reading Find primary and secondary sources for the history of books, print culture, and readers. 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