Special Collections and the WWW

Steve Ferguson   November, 1996  ferguson@princeton.edu


Search the WWW   |  Libraries, Archives, and Manuscripts   and General   |   Princeton   |  
History of the Book  |  Special Topics: Conservation, Security, etc   | Professional Groups | Scholarly   | Personal  |  WWW


Search the WWW

Alta Vista: Main Page Product of Digital. Word, phrase, image, person searches. Intuitive. Over 30 million pages indexed.
HotBot: Product of Wired. Word, phrase,  image, person searches. Over 50 million pages indexed.
Yahooligans! Structured, classified.


More about indexes  (link to come)


General as well as Libraries, Archives and Manuscripts

Repositories of Primary Sources Provides hyperlinks to over 1,200 websites describing holdings of   manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other sources.  Actively maintained. Geographically arranged.
Special Collections Resources on the Web Also actively maintained. Well organized.
Archival Resources on the Internet Attractively designed, efficient.
Archival and Conservation Resources Maintained by C.L. Mundale. Grad student project Spring 1995 and still updated.
List provided by a colleague at Columbia

Ton Cremers and Marian Beereboom BOOKS  Covers a wide variety of cognate fields,
over 1k links, updated almost daily


Princeton

Rare Books and Special Collections Department  Main page being a subsection of the Library's Web site
Princeton Univ Library - Guide to Selected Special Collections  Web version of the 140 page
Guide together with an index done using frames


History of the Book

A Guide to the Book Arts and Book History on the World Wide Web Maintained by
Andrew Pace at Catholic University, Washington
 http://www.princeton.edu/~ferguson/histbook.html From the RBMS Web site
Internet Resources for the Study of Communications Provided by Princeton's Paul Starr for Sociology 344.
Print, Literacy and Power: To 1900 Syllabus of  M. Duggan, professor at Berkeley. Typical of the many such like findable using the term "print culture."

Watermarks
Watermark Archive  Incorporating the The University of Delaware Library Thomas L.Gravell Watermark Collection Provided by the Center for Textual & Editorial Studies and the Scholarly Communications Project at Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
Digital Watermark & Ornament Catalogue  Focused on the work of William Stansby, printer of the folio edition of Ben Jonson's Works

Emblem Books
University of Glasgow : Emblems Website


Special Topics


Stolen Book Registry Maintained by Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America. See also the theft list of the RBMS Security Committee

Conservation OnLine. Walter Henry's unparalleled efforts on behalf of the collections conservation community and it's adherents. Note listserv archives: Exlibris, Book Arts-L, et al,


ExhibitsVirtual Exhibits on the World Wide Web by: Carole Prietto


Professional Groups

RBMS
RBMS ETECH experimental homepage -- SF. Maintained here at Princeton.
SAA
Society of American Archivists. Maintained at the Univ. of Texas.
ABAA
Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America


Scholarly

The Scholar's Net compiled by Jon Edwards, deputy to Princeton's Vice President for
Computing and Information Technology.

Index of Resources for History is maintained jointly by the Department of History of the University of Kansasand the Lehrstuhl für Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Regensburg,and is managed by Eric Marzo of Regensburg and Lynn H. Nelson of Kansas. Index consists of a single large file (approximately 185 Kb) offering over 1700 connections arranged alphabetically by subject and name.

Using the Web for Scholarly Purposes: http://www.princeton.edu/~place2/


Personal

Some examples of the generous volunteerism that typifies the scholarly content of the WWW
Daniel Traister's Home Page
PG Books Links Page
Peter Kilpe's page http://allison.clark.ne...pe/home/earlyBooks.html


WWW

Technical
HTML Writer - WWW and HTML Information and Resources
HTML Writer Home Page
The Web Developer's Virtual Library
Web Resources and Services
Web-Counter Creation Page