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Bibliography: Preservation and Persistence of the Book

Advent of the Codex

Bagnall, Roger S., Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton University Press, 1993. Bagnell, Roger S., Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, Routledge, 1995. Canfora, Luciano, The Vanished Library, University of California Press,1990. Casson, Lionel, Libraries in the Ancient World, Yale University Press, 2001. Gamble, Harry Y., Books and Readers in the Early Church; A History of Early Christian Texts, Yale University Press, 1995. Grafton, Anthony and Williams, Megan, Christianity and the Transformation of the Book, Harvard University Press, 2006. Grierson, Roderick, ed., African Zion, The Sacred Art of Ethiopia, Yale University Press, 1993. Hamel, Christopher de, The Book. A History of the Bible, Phaidon Press inc.,2001. Lampe, G.W.H., The Cambridge History of the Bible, Cambridge University Press, 1969. Mack, Burton L., The Lost Gospel, The Book of Q & Christian Origins, Harper, 1993. Meyer, Marvin, The Gospel of Thomas, HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels, Vintage Books, 1979. Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Paul, Trinity Press, 1992. Parkinson, Richard and Quirke, Stephaen, Papyrus, University of Texas Press, 1995. Patterson, Stephan J.and Robinson, James M., The Fifth Gospel, The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age, Trinity Press International, 1998. Powell, Roger and Waters, Peter, "Technical Description of the Binding", The Stonyhurst Gospel of St. John, The Roxburgh Club, Oxford, 1969. Roberts, Colin H. and Skeat, T.C., The Birth of the Codex, Oxford University Press, 1983. Robinson, James M., ed., The Nag Hammadi Library, rev.edi., Harper & Row, 1978. Robinson, James M., The Nag Hammadi Codices, Institute for Antiquity and Christianity, 1977. Saenger, Paul, Space Between Words, The Origins of Silent Reading, Stanford University Press, 1997. Schmandt-Besserat, Denise, How Writing Came About, University of Texas Press, 1996. Sider, David, The Library of the Villa Dei Papiri at Herculaneum,Getty Publications, 2005. Snyder, Gregory, Teachers and Texts in the Ancient World, Routledge, 2000. Stark, Rodney, The Rise of Christianity, HarperCollins, 1997. Turner, Eric G., The Topology of the Early Codex, University of Pennsylvannia, 1977.

Early Hand Bookbinding

de Bray, Dirk, A Short Instruction in the Binding of Books, (a facsimile of the 1658 mss) Nico Isreal, Amsterdam, 1977. Middleton, Bernard, A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, 2nd edition, Holland Press, London, 1978. Giles, Frances and Joseph, Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel, Technology and invention in the Middle Ages, Harper Perennial, 1994. Pollard, Graham, "Changes in the Styles of Bookbinding, 1550-1840", The Library, 5th series, XI/2, June, 1956. Spawn, Willman, Bookbinding in America 1680-1910, Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1983. * Szirmai, J. A., The Archaeology of Medieval Bookbinding, Ashgate, 1999. (see also FotB commentary)

Latter day Book Production

Allen, Sue and Gullans, Charles, Decorated Cloth in American Publishers' Bindings, 1840-1910, University of California, Los Angeles, 1994. Cloonan, Michele, Early Bindings in Paper, G.K.Hall, 1991 Comparato, Frank E., Books for the Millions, Stackpole Co.,1971. Darley, Lionel, Bookbinding Then and Now, Faber & Faber, London, 1959. DeMerritt, John and Riley, Dominic, "Factory Maneuvers: Trade Bindings & Labour in London, 1778 - 1850", The Ampersand, 15/1, winter, 1996. Johns, Adrian, The Nature of the Book, Print and Knowledge in the Making, University of Chicago Press, 1998. Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut, The Book in America, R.R.Bowker, 1952. Rimble, Walker, The Swifts, Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races, University of Virginia Press, 2003. Sadleir, Michael, Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles, 1770-1900, Garland, 1990. Schick, Frank, The Paperbound Book in America: The History of Paper-Backs and their European Background, R.R.Bowker Company, New York, 1958, 262p. Tschichold, Jan, The Form of the Book, Hartley & Marks, 1991.

Book Conservation

Cains, Anthony, "Roger Powell and His Early Irish Manuscripts in Dublin", Conservation and Preservation in Small Libraries, Parker Library, Cambridge, UK, 1994. Caple, Chris, Conservation Skills: Judgement, Methods and Decision Making, Routledge, 2000. Clarkson, Christopher, "The Conservation of Early Books in Codex Form: A Personal Approach: Part I", The Paper Conservator, 3 (1978), pp, 33-55. Clarkson, Christopher, Limp Vellum Bindings and Its Potential as a Conservation Type Structure for the Rebinding of Early Printed Books: A Break with Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Rebinding Attitudes and Practices, Red Gull Press, Herts, UK, 1982. Cockerell, Douglas, Bookbinding, and the Care of Books, 5th ed., Pentalic Corp., 1978.

Book Preservation

Baker, Nicholson, "Deadline", New Yorker July, 2000, "Discards", New Yorker, 1994. Baker, Nicholson, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, published by Random House in New York, 2001. Banks, Paul and Pilette, Roberta, Preservation: Issues and Planning, American Library Association, 2000. (see also FotB commentary) Child, Margaret, "Must Publications Be Preserved in Original Format?", from Managing the Preservation of Serial Literature, IFLA #57, 1992. CLIR, Task Force on the Role of the Artifact draft Report 3.2001. (see also FotB commentary) Final report; November, 2001, The Evidence in Hand: Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections, CLIR, Washington. Graham, Peter S., "Intellectual Preservation in the Electronic Environment", ALCTS, ALA, 1992. McCrady, Ellen, "Deacidification vs. Microfilming", Abbey Newsletter, October 1990, 14(6), p. 112-113. McCrady,Ellen,"Originals and Copies" subheading in "Preservation Issues at ALA Chicago", Abbey Newsletter, August 1990, 14(5), p. 77-78. "On Preservation of Books and Documents in Original Form", Barclay Ogden, reprinted in Abbey Newsletter, July 1990, 14(4), p.62-64. Preserving the Illustrated Text, Report of the Joint Task Force on Text and Image, The Commission on Preservation and Access, April, 1992. McCorison, Marcus A., "Statement on Conservation", Commission on Preservation and Access, October, 1989, reprinted in Abbey Newsletter, Aug, 1990, 14(5), p.84. Schnare, Robert, Bibliography of Preservation Literature 1983-1996, Scarecrow Press, 2001. Tanselle, G. Thomas, "Libraries, Museums and Reading", 6th Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography, Columbia University, New York, 1991, 32p. Tanselle, G. Thomas, "Reproductions and Scholarship", Studies in Bibliography, 42 (1989), 25-54. Tanselle, Thomas, "Statement on the Significance of Primary Records", Modern Language Association of America, Profession, 1995.

History and Future of the Book

Battin, Patricia and Hawkins, Brian L., The Mirage of Continuity: Reconfiguring Academic Information Resources for the 21st Century, Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998. Basalla, George, The Evolution of Technology, Cambridge University Press, 1988. Bazin, Patrick, "Toward Metareading", pp. 153-168, The Future of the Book, University of California Press, 1996. Berman, Morris, The Twilight of American Culture, W.W. Norton & Co., 2000. Bergman, Morris, Dark Ages America, the Final Phase of Empire, W.W.Norton & Co., 2006 Brand, Stewart, The Clock of the Long Now, Basic Books, 1999. Cahill, Thomas, How the Irish Saved Civilization, Doubleday, 1995. Conway, Paul, "Preservation in the Digital World", Commisssion on Preservation and Access, 1996. Crawford, Walt and Gorman, Michael, Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality, American Library Association, 1995. Crawford, Walt, Being Analog, Creating Tomorrow's Libraries, ALA, 1999. Dyson, George B., Darwin Among the Machines, The Evolution of Global Intenlligence, Perseus Books. Duguid, Paul, "Material Matters: The Past and Futurology of the Book", pp. 63-102, The Future of the Book, University of California Press, 19 Ellenport, Samuel, The Future of Hand-Bookbinding, Harcourt Bindery, Boston, 1993. Epstein, Jason, Book Business, Publishing Past Present and Future, WW Norton, 2001. Febvre, Lucien and Martin, Henri-Jean, The Coming of the Book,Verso, 1976. Fidler, Roger, Mediamorphosis, Understanding New Media, Pine Forge Press, 1997. Greenberger, Martin, On Multimedia, The Voyager Company, 1990. Hill, P.J., The Future of the Printed Word; the impact and the implications of the new communications technology, Greenwood Press, 1980. Jager, Eric, The Book of the Heart, University of Chicago Press, 2000. Johns, Adrian, "The past, present and future of the scientific book", Books and the Sciences in History, Cambridge University press, 2000. Landow, George, "Twenty Minutes into the Future, Or How Are We Moving Beyond the Book", pp. 209-238, The Future of the Book, University of California Press, 1996. Lynch, Clifford, "The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World", First Monday, volume 6, # 6 (June 2001). Martin, Henri-Jean, The History and Power of Writing, University of Chicago Press, 1988. Negroponte, Nicholas, "The Future of the Book", Wired, February, 1996. Nunberg, Geoffrey, "The Places of Books in the Age of Electronic Reproduction", Xerox Palo Alto Research Center/ Stanford University From Representations 24, Spring, 1993. (Also in Howard Bloch and Carla Hesse, eds., Future Libraries, University of California Press, 1994). Ong, Walter, Ramus, Method and the Decay of Dialog, with Foreword by Adrian Johns, University of Chicago Press, 2004. Raven, James, The Business of Books, Yale University, 2007. Rubenstein, Richard, Aristotle's Children; How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Middle Ages, Harcourt, 2003. Stille, Alexander, The Future of the Past, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002.  Utne Reader, March/April, 2001, items under "Is there a Future for Books" including "The Last Book" by D.T. Max from The American Scholar.

Reading Modes, Haptics and Habitats of Reading

Birkerts, Sven, Readings, Greywolf Press, 1999. Birkerts, Sven, The Gutenberg Elegies, The fate of Reading in an Electronic Age, Fawcett Columbine, New York, 1994. Bolter, Jay David, Writing Space, The computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991, completely rewritten, second edition 2002. Brown, John Seely and Duguid, Paul, The Social Life of Information, Harvard Business School Press, 2000. Calvin, William, The Throwing Madonna, McGraw-Hill, 2000. Calvin, William, A Brief History of the Mind, Oxford University Press, 2004. Cavallo, Guglielimo, and Chartier, Roger, eds. A History of Reading, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999. Chartier, Roger, The Order of Books, Stanford University Press, 1994. Derrida, Jacques, Paper Machine, Stanford University Press, 2005. Finkelstein, David and McCleery, Alistair, The Book History Reader, Routledge, 2002. Gardiner, W. Lambert, Media, Past, Present and Future, Academica Press, 2006. Gruenewald, David A., Smith, Gregory A., Place-Based Education in the Global Age, Lawrence Erlbaum, 2008. Harper, Richard and Sellen, Abigail, The Myth of the Paperless Office,MIT Press, 2002. Havelock, Eric, "The oral-literate equation: a formula for the modern mind", in Literacy and Orality, Cambridge University Press, 1991. Hayles, N. Katherine, How We Became Posthuman,University of Chicago Press, 1999. Hayles, N Katherine, Writing Machines, MIT Press, 2002. van Huyssteen, J. Wentzel, Alone in the World? Human Uniqueness in Science and Theology2006. Johns, Adrian, "The physiology of reading" in Books and the Sciences in History, Cambridge University Press, 2000. Lanham, Richard A. , The Electronic Word, University of Chicago, 1993. Levinson, Paul, digital mcluhan, Routledge, 1999. Levinson, Paul, the soft edge, a natural history and future of the information revolutionRoutledge, 1997. Levy, David, Scrolling Forward, Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, 2001. Mithen, Steven, The Prehistory of the Mind, Thames & Hudson, 1996. O'Donnell, James J., Avatars of the Word,Harvard University Press, 1998. Olson, David R., Torrance, Nancy, Literacy and Orality, Cambridge University Press, 1991. (with essays by Eric Havelock, Ivan Illich, R.Narasimhan and Paul Saenger) Ong, Walter, Orality & Literacy , (1982) Routledge, 2000. Peters, John Duraham, Speaking onto the Air, A history of the Idea of Communcation, University of Chicago, 1999. Postman, Neil, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, Vintage Books, 1999. Rayner, Keith and Pollatsek, Alexander, The Psychology of Reading, Prentice Hall, 1989. Rheingold, Howard, Tools for Thought, Simon & Schuster/Prentice Hall, 1985, MIT, 2000. Saenger, Paul, Space Between Words, The Origins of Silent Reading, Stanford University Press, 1997. Smail, Daniel Lord, On Deep History and the Brain, University of California, 2008. Stock, Brian, Augustine the Reader, Harvard University Press, 1996. Stock, Brian, The Implications of Literacy, Princeton University Press, 1983. Wilson, Frank R., The Hand: How its Use Shapes the Brain, Pantheon Books, 1998. Wilson, Frank R., "The meaning of Hands-on Education", Waldrof Research Bulleting, 1999. Yellowlees Douglas, J., The End of Books - Or Books without End? Reading Interactive Narratives University of Michigan Press, 2000. Zielinksi, Siegfried, Deep Time of the Media, Toward an Archeology of Hearing and Seeing by Technical Means, MIT Press, 2006.

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