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• Librarians Are Human: Memories In and Out of the Rare-Book World, 1907-1970, by Margaret Bingham Stillwell (page images at CMU)

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• Bibliothecae Americanae Primordia: An Attempt Towards Laying the Foundation of an American Library, in Several Books, Papers, And Writings (London: Printed for J. Churchill, 1713), by White Kennett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Primordia of Bishop White Kennett: The First English Bibliography on America (originally published 1713; this edition Washington: Pan American Union, 1959), by White Kennett, contrib. by Frederick Richmond Goff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliotheca Americana: or, A Chronological Catalogue of the Most Curious and Interesting Books, Pamphlets, State papers, &c., Upon the Subject of North and South America, From the Earliest Period to the Present, in Print and Manuscript (published anonymously, but claimed by Rede in his letters; London: Printed for J. Debrett et al., 1789), by Leman Thomas Rede
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Archives du Bibliophile (in French), ed. by A. Claudin (partial serial archives)

• The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • third and fourth portions: multiple formats at archive.org

• Bibliotheca Meermanniana (4 sale catalog books in 2 volumes, in various languages; 1824), contrib. by Gerard Meerman and Johan Meerman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore (in Dutch and English; 1994) (frame-dependent illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)

• The Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University: Collections and Treasures (HTML at Columbia)

• The Colophon (partial serial archives)

• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English language, Alphabetically Arranged, Which, During the Last Fifty Years, Have Come Under the Observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A. (2 volumes; London: J. Lilly, 1865), by John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Printing in Italy, With Special Reference to the Classics, 1469-1517: A Guide to the Commencement Exhibition Commemorating the Five Hundredth Anniversary of the Invention Of Printing (1940), by Princeton University Library, contrib. by John Ford Peckham and Lawrance Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legacies of Genius: A Celebration of Philadelphia Libraries (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries, 1988), ed. by Edwin Wolf (page images at Google)

• Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records: Final Report (original 1998 report, plus amended version of 2009), by IFLA Study Group on the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (HTML and PDF at ifla.org)
• Where Angels Fear to Tread: Descriptive Bibliography and Alexander Pope (Washington: Library of Congress, 1988), by David L. Vander Meulen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Research Strategies: Finding Your Way Through the Information Fog (updated version of "The survivor's guide to library research"), by William B. Badke (illustrated HTML at twu.ca)

• The Citation Culture (1999), by Paul Wouters (PDF here at Penn)
• Citing Medicine: The NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers (second edition, revised 2015), by Karen Patrias, ed. by Daniel L. Wendling (HTML and PDF files at NIH)
• The Citation Process: The Role and Significance of Citations in Scientific Communication (1984), by Blaise Cronin (PDF here at Penn)
• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• The Scholar's Courtesy: The Role of Acknowledgement in the Primary Communication Process (1995), by Blaise Cronin (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Altmetrics for Librarians: 100+ Tips, Tricks, and Examples (London: Altmetric, c2016), by Stacy Konkiel, Natalia Madjarevic, and Amy Rees (PDF with commentary at Figshare)
• Meaningful Metrics: A 21st Century Librarian's Guide to Bibliometrics, Altmetrics, and Research Impact (Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 2015), by Robin Chin Roemer and Rachel Borchardt (PDF with commentary at ala.org)

• Citation Indexing: Its Theory and Application in Science, Technology, and Humanities, by Eugene Garfield (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification (reprinted as a supplement to Dynatron 25; Albuquerque, NM: R. Tackett, ca. 1964), by Jack Speer (PDF at fanac.org)

• Grey Literature in Library and Information Studies (Berlin and New York: De Gruyter, c2010), ed. by Dominic John Farace and Joachim Schöpfel (PDF at OAPEN)

• The Citation Process: The Role and Significance of Citations in Scientific Communication (1984), by Blaise Cronin (PDF here at Penn)

• Fantasy Fiction Decimal Classification (reprinted as a supplement to Dynatron 25; Albuquerque, NM: R. Tackett, ca. 1964), by Jack Speer (PDF at fanac.org)

• Serials: The Journal of the United Kingdom Serials Group (1988-2011) (full serial archives)