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• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)

• Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institution Publications, c2012), by Nancy Y. McGovern (PDF at educopia.org)

• CLIR Issues (full serial archives)

• Conservation Administration News (partial serial archives)
• The Bonefolder: An E-Journal for the Bookbinder and Book Artist (full serial archives)

• Preserving Digital Information, by Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information (HTML at rlg.org)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1888), by William Blades (Gutenberg text)

• Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology (1982), by Matt Roberts and Don Etherington
  • HTML at conservation-us.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mending and Repair of Books (4th edition; Chicago: American Library Association Publishing Board, 1921), by Margaret Wright Brown and Gertrude Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)

• The Bonefolder: An E-Journal for the Bookbinder and Book Artist (full serial archives)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Digitization in the Real World: Lessons Learned From Small and Medium-Sized Digitization Projects (New York: Metropolitan New York Library Council, c2010), ed. by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization: A White Paper (2008), by Oya Y. Rieger (HTML and PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums (2001), by Abby Smith Rumsey (HTML at clir.org)
• Moving Theory Into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives (Mountain View, CA: Research Libraries Group, c2000), ed. by Anne R. Kenney and Oya Y. Rieger (multiple formats at archive.org)
• From Handwriting to Footprinting: Text and Heritage in the Age of Climate Crisis (Cambridge, UK: OpenBook Publishers, c2023), by Anne Baillot (PDF files with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• A Guide to Distributed Digital Preservation (Atlanta: Educopia Institute, 2010), ed. by Katherine Skinner and Matt Schultz (PDF with commentary at metaarchive.org)
• Creating and Documenting Electronic Texts: A Guide to Good Practice (2000), by Alan S. Morrison, Michael Popham, and Karen Wikander (HTML in the UK)
• Digital Samaritans: Rhetorical Delivery and Engagement in the Digital Humanities (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015), by Jim Ridolfo (HTML with commentary at Digital Culture Books)
• Handbook for Digital Projects: A Management Tool for Preservation and Access (2000), ed. by Maxine K. Sitts (PDF at nedcc.org)
• The Idea of Order: Transforming Research Collections for 21st Century Scholarship (Washington: Council on Library and Information Resources, c2010), contrib. by Charles Henry, Lisa Spiro, Geneva Henry, Paul N. Courant, Matthew Nielsen, Kathlin Smith, and Roger C. Schonfeld (PDF with commentary at clir.org)
• Digital Images in Education: Realising the Vision (London: JISC Collections, 2007), ed. by Leona Carpenter and Caren Milloy (PDF files with commentary at JISC Collections)
• Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections: Foundations for Technical Standards (second edition, 2006), by Franziska S. Frey and James M. Reilly (PDF at imagepermanenceinstitute.org)
• Our Cultural Commonwealth: The Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006), by American Council of Learned Societies (PDF with commentary at acls.org)
• The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials, by University of Glasgow Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute and National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (HTML at NYU)
• Scholarly Work in the Humanities and the Evolving Information Environment, by William S. Brockman, Laura Neumann, Carole L. Palmer, and Tonyia J. Tidline (HTML and PDF at clir.org)

• Sustaining Digital Resources: An On-the-Ground View of Projects Today (2009), by Nancy Maron, K. Kirby Smith, and Matthew Loy (PDF with commentary at ithaka.org)

• Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums (2009), by Peter B. Hirtle, Emily Hudson, and Andrew T. Kenyon (PDF at Cornell)

• A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections (third edition, 2007), by National Information Standards Organization (U.S.) (HTML with commentary at niso.org)

• Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine (New York: Blast Books, ca. 2011), ed. by Michael Sappol, contrib. by Laura Lindgren, illust. by Arne Svenson (PDF at NIH)

• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (Gutenberg text)
• Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders and Librarians (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Douglas Cockerell, ed. by W. R. Lethaby, illust. by Noel Rooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at CMU

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