Web Sites
American Antiquarian Society
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America
http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~printcul/History of Literacy Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association
http://www.historyliteracy.org/Library History Round Table of the American Library Association
http://www.ala.org/lhrt/SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing) web
http://www.sharpweb.org/University of Iowa Center for the Book
http://www.uiowa.edu/~ctrbook/University College Cork: Making Books: Shaping Readers
http://www.ucc.ie/en/mbsr/Reading Experience Database
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/RED/
Readings
Books
Scott E. Casper, Joanne D. Chaison, And Jeffrey D. Groves. Perspectives on American Book History: Artifacts and Commentary. (Amherst: Univesity of Massachusetts Press, 2002)
Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds). A History of Reading in the West. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999).
Alberto Manguel, A History of Reading (New York: Viking, 1996).
Henry Petroski, The Book on the Book Shelf (Alfred A. Knopf, 1999)
Articles
Robert Darnton. "History of Reading." Chapter 7 in Peter Burke (ed.) New Perspectives on Historical Writing. (University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992): 140-167.
Carl F. Kaestle "The History of Readers." In Literacy in the United States, edited by Carl F. Kaestle, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley and William Vance Jr. Trollinger, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991): 33-72.Wayne A. Wiegand. "Introduction: Theoretical Foundations for Analyzing Print Culture as Agency and Practice in Diverse Modern America." In Print Culture in a Diverse America, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1997) 1-13.
Joan Shelley Rubin, “What is the History of the History of Books,” Journal of American History, 90, no, 2 (September 2003): 555-575
Jonathan Rose, “Arriving at a History of Reading,” Historically Speaking, (January, 2004): 36-39
Updated September 1, 2007