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Catalogues and Bibliographies Library & Database Lists Cataloging Resources Language Tools Conservation Booksellers, Bookseller Associations & Auction Records Miscellaneous

 =**Catalogues and Bibliographies**=

Union catalogue of French libraries. Combines the databases of the Bibliotheque Nationale (BN-Opale), the union catalogue of university libraries (SUDOC), and the union catalogue of municipal and historical libraries (BMR).
 * CCFR - Catalogue Collectif de France**
 * @http://www.ccfr.bnf.fr/portailccfr/servlet/LoginServlet**

@http://en.www.mcu.es/patrimoniobibliografico/cargarFiltroPatrimonioBibliografico.do?cache=init&layout=catBibliografico&language=es Union catalog of Spanish libraries, covering the 15th century to 1958.
 * CCPB - Catálogo Colectivo de Patrimonio Bibliográfico Español**

[|http://directory.mwa.org/ACBT] Database documenting the activity of individuals and firms involved in the manufacture and distribution of childrens books in the United States chiefly between 1821 and 1876.
 * Children's Books**

[|http://www.copac.ac.uk] Union catalog of Britain's Consortium of Research Libraries (CURL), including 24 major university research libraries in the UK and Ireland plus the British Library, the National Library of Scotland, and the National Library of Wales, and several smaller libraries.
 * COPAC**

@http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it/web_iccu/imain.htm Digital bibliography of editions printed in Italy between 1501 and 1600, in any language, and editions printed abroad in Italian. Also contains searchable information about authors, publishers, uniform titles, and printers' devices.
 * EDIT 16 - Census of Italian 16th Century Editions**

@http://eebo.chadwyck.com/home Database of titles, many available as scanned images, contained in Pollard and Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661), and the Early English Tract Supplement.
 * EEBO - Early English Books Online**

@http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=1285 Digital images of English-language titles and editions published between 1701 and 1800. The titles in the first release of the database concern subjects in History and Geography.
 * Eighteenth Century Collections Online**

@http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc Contains records for works printed in any language in England or its dependencies from 1473 through 1800, as well as works printed in English anywhere else in the world during that period.
 * ESTC - English Short Title Catalogue**

@http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=984 Digital images of works issued in America from 1639 to 1800. The collection is comprised of the non-serial titles recorded by Charles Evans in his American Bibliography and additional items identified by Roger Pattrell Bristol in Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography.
 * Evans Digital Edition**

[|http://www.dbnl.org] Database of Dutch bibliographical information covering the Middle Ages to the present, browsable by author or searchable by keyword. Includes full text versions of the most important Dutch bibliographies.
 * DBNL - Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren**

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 * Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW)**

[|http://www.getty.edu]** Research library with collections focusing on the history of art from prehistory to contemporary art. Particularly good for artists books, counter culture materials, etc.
 * Getty Research Institute

[|Link for Heritage of the Printed Book Database] Database of European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) from the Consortium of European Research Libraries
 * Heritage of the Printed Book Database** (previously called the **Handpress Books Database**)

http://opac.sbn.it/cgi-bin/IccuForm.pl?form=WebFrame Union catalog for Italian national and municipal libraries.
 * ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico**

http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/istc/index.html International database of 15th century printing.
 * ISTC - Incunabula Short Title Catalogue**

http://www.ubka.uni-karlsruhe.de/kvk.html Meta-searches national and regional library databases throughout Europe; especially strong in German imprints.
 * KVK - Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog**

[|http://catalog.loc.gov] Catalog records for the over 12 million books and other items in the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress.
 * LC - Library of Congress**

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Search special collections of American sheet music, maps, photographs, advertisements, menus, and other ephemera not always available in standard catalogues. Includes scanned images of each item.
 * LC American Memory Collections**

[|http://authorities.loc.gov] Library of Congress authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations.
 * LC Authorities**

http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=297 Online Computer Library Center's database of over 50 million records of books and other materials held in thousands of academic, public, special and national libraries around the world.
 * OCLC / Worldcat**

[|http://www.rarebooks.info] Provides access to more than 80 bibliographies, including Goff, Brunet, Madan, Phillips, Willems and Sabin.
 * Rarebooks.info**

http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=126 Research Libraries Group's bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles, most of which are in academic libraries. Also accessible through the RLIN interface, which allows importing, exporting, and advanced searching options: [|http://rlin21.rlg.org]
 * RLIN / Eureka**

http://www.stcv.be/eng/frame.html Short title catalog of 17th c. imprints from Flanders, including the cities of Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Bruges and Leuven.
 * STCF - Short Title Catalogue Flanders**

http://picarta.pica.nl/ A comprehensive bibliographic database of Dutch imprints, 1540-1800. Like ESTC, it aims to cover all books printed in the Netherlands, plus all the books published abroad in Dutch.
 * STCN - Short Title Catalogue Netherlands**

Bibliography of books printed in the German-speaking countries in the 16th century. The full version is not available online, but basic access is available through [|KVK].
 * VD-16**

[|http://www.vd17.de] Bibliography of books printed in the German-speaking countries in the 17th century. Includes scanned images for some titles.
 * VD-17**

http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=292 The Wing Short Title Catalog is the essential bibliographic database of extant books, pamphlets and broadsides printed in English between 1641 and 1700. Started by Yale's own Donald Wing. Overlaps with ESTC.
 * Wing Short Title Catalog**

 =**Library & Database Lists**=

http://www.ifla.org/VI/2/p2/national-libraries.htm Addresses and links to national libraries around the world, listed by country name.
 * IFLA's List of National Libraries**

http://www.library.yale.edu/orbis/worldwidecats.html Links to library catalogs from around the world.
 * Yale Library's List of Library Catalogs**

http://www.library.yale.edu/databases Searchable list of databases available at Yale.
 * Yale Library's List of Databases and Online Resources**

[|http://artgallery.yale.edu/pages/search.html**]** Searchable image database of the Art Gallery's collections.
 * Yale University Art Gallery database

 =Cataloguing Resources=

Carter, John and Nicolas Barker **http://www.ilab.org/download.php?object=documentation&id=29** PDF version of ABC for Book Collectors.
 * ABC for Book Collectors, 8th ed. (U.S.)**

http://resources.library.yale.edu/online/viewrecorddetpublic.asp?whatcaseedit=54 Index to nearly 12 million biographical sketches in more than 2700 volumes and editions of current and retrospective reference books, covering both contemporary and historical figures throughout the world.
 * Biography and Genealogy Master Index**

[|http://net.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/glossary/glossary.htm] Glossary of Latin terms frequently used in early printed books.
 * Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early Printed Books**

http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/reading Suggesting reading lists for courses offered at the Rare Book School, covering subjects such as history of the book, book collecting, bibliography and research methods.
 * Rare Book School - Reading Lists**

http://lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat Exhaustive collection of links to rare book cataloguing resources by the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of the ACRL.
 * RBMS Web Resources for the Rare Book Cataloguer**

http://www.loc.gov/marc/organizations/orgshome.html Links to a [|database] of MARC codes for libraries, such as CtY for Yale, MH for Harvard, etc. Searchable by the code or by the library name.
 * Repository Codes**

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/rarebookteam/sigtable.htm Yale Rare Book Team's signature/paginational table for folios through duodecimos.
 * Signature-Pagination Table**

http://www.acronymfinder.com/stateabbreviations.asp A list of all the states, with their current and traditional postal abbreviations.
 * State Postal Abbreviations**

http://www.loc.gov/marc/umb/ Describes MARC formatting. Includes a list of commonly used fields and subfields.
 * Understanding MARC**

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/ Home page for cataloguing teams throughout Yale, with links to committee activities, local policies, cataloguing resources, and archives of past Yale practices.
 * Yale Cataloguing**

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/rarebookteam Local Beinecke cataloguing practices and links to resources.
 * Yale Rare Book Team**

 =Language Tools=

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html Transliteration schemes for non-Roman Scripts, approved by the Library of Congress and the American Library Association.
 * ALA-LC Romanization Tables**

[|http://world.altavista.com] Multi-lingual translator and web page translator by Babelfish.
 * Altavista language tools**

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/fraktur.htm Gothic characters key, maintained by the Yale Music Library.
 * Fraktur Chart**

http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/lang/biblang.htm Translations of bibliographic terms in the major European languages.
 * Glossary of Foreign Bibliographic terms**

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en Multi-lingual translator and web page translator by Google.
 * Google language tools**

http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/RG/guide/German_Gothic99-36316.ASP#how_to_use_the_chart_for_german_research Guide to Gothic type and script, with pictures and further resources, from the Church of Latter Day Saint's Family History Library.
 * Gothic Characters and Handwriting Chart**

[|http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm#top] A list of Latin place names and their vernacular equivalents, sponsored by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of ACRL's Bibliographic Standards Committee.
 * Latin Place Names**

http://www.loc.gov/marc/languages/langhome.html A list of languages and their corresponding cataloging codes, helpful for choosing the proper language for local notes, etc. Follow the link above to the Name Sequence link (either HTML or PDF), note the HTML page takes a while to load the first time.
 * Marc Code List for Languages**

http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/rarebookteam/paleography.htm List of resources for deciphering and learning about early modern handwriting styles. Mostly centered on 17th-18th century English paleography, but also includes sources for French, German, Italian, Latin and Spanish, 1500-1800. Compiled by Diane Ducharme, Beinecke archivist.
 * Paleographic Resources**

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/browse Very useful: English definitions, browsable dictionaries in dozens of world languages, plus a translation engine that searches for definitions in all languages at once.
 * Webster's Online Dictionary**

http://www.wordreference.com/ Spanish, French, Italian and English dictionary. Shows words in many compound forms as well as similarly spelled words.
 * Wordreference.com**

 =Conservation=

[|http://aic.stanford.edu] Professional association for conservators. Contains contact information for specialists in a broad range of fields including paper, textile, painting and object conservation, and links to specialist websites.
 * American Institute for Conservation of Historic & Artistic Works**

http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html Full-text, searchable dictionary of bookbinding and conservation terms.
 * Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology**

[|http://palimpsest.stanford.edu] Full text library of conservation information, covering a wide spectrum of topics of interest to those involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials. Maintained by the Preservation Department of Stanford University.
 * Conservation Online**

 =Booksellers, Bookseller Associations, and Auction Records=

[|http://www.abaa.org] Rare books, maps, prints, and autographs. The American branch of ILAB.
 * ABAA - Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America**

http://search.bookpricescurrent.com/index.php An annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction.
 * ABPC - American Book Prices Current**

[|http://www.abebooks.com] The largest site for used and rare books. The majority of the booksellers are from the U.S. and Canada.
 * Abebooks.com**

[|http://www.amazon.com] Mostly new and some used books. Good for recent publications.
 * Amazon.com**

[|http://www.antiqbook.com] Rare books from several hundred antiquarian dealers worldwide. Based in the Netherlands, most of its vendors are Dutch, Belgian, and English.
 * Antiqbook.com**

[|http://www.artcurial.com]** Useful for sales of modern materials.
 * Artcurial

http://users.skynet.be/biobibdata/belhome.html Sales records from 2001 to the present of books printed in Belgium before 1800. Excellent resource for pricing Belgian books.
 * BelEdiMar**

[|http://www.bibliopoly.com] A relatively small but high-quality site, administered by Bernard Quaritch. Participating vendors include most of the best European & British rare book dealers.
 * Bibliopoly.com**

http://www.ilabdatabase.com/php/searchform.php3 Rare books, maps, prints, and autographs from member booksellers worldwide. Good for imprints from unusual countries.
 * ILAB - International League of Antiquarian Booksellers**

http://www.bookshops.it/script/ricerca.cgi Used and rare books from over 100 Italian booksellers, from high-end to modest.
 * Libriantichi.com**

http://www.livre-rare-book.com/moteurEN.html Used and rare books from several hundred French book dealers. Tends towards the lower end of the market, with many small provincial vendors.
 * Livre-Rare-Book.com**

http://www.trussel.com/books.htm#searchable Search forms for multiple booksellers, all on one page.
 * Trussel's Searchable Booksites**

http://www.vialibri.net/ Meta-Search tool: allows to search most of our bookseller sites with one click. Has also links to various library and union catalogues.
 * Via Libri**

[|http://www.zvab.com] Largest European catalogue of antiquarian books. Based in Germany, it is especially strong in Germanic imprints.
 * ZVAB - Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer Bücher**

 =Miscellaneous=

http://www.ilab-lila.com/images/abcforbookcollectors.pdf PDF of the 8th edition (2004) of __ABC for Book Collectors__
 * John Carter - ABC for Book Collectors**

[|http://www.xe.com] Currency converter with real-time rates.
 * XE.com - Currency converter**

[|Dictionary of Abbreviations]commonly used by German and Italian Antiquarian Booksellers and Auctioneers. By B. M. Rosenthal. Hosted at [|http://www.ilab.org] [|Dictionary of Terms and Expressions]commonly used in the Antiquarian Booktrade in French, English, German and Italian. By Edgar Franco. Hosted at [|http://www.ilab.org] [|ILAB LILA dictionary of terms] [|ILAB LILA Glossary]
 * Dictionaries - European bookdealer description terms**

[|http://www.labanquedublason.com] Source for heraldry including a glossary of terms, pictures of common French arms, and a large database of armorial bearings.
 * GASO - La banque du blason**

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/dialing.html Gives directions for dialing international phone numbers, including country and city prefixes. Also has links to the current local times for cities across the globe.
 * International Calls - Directions**

http://www.louisg.net/calendrier_pataphysique.htm#pata Source for converting dates from the Pataphysical calendar.
 * Pataphysical Calendar**

http://www.wiskit.com/calendar.html Shows calendar dates and days of the week for any year between 1-9999 A.D.
 * Perpetual Calendar**

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar Provides information on converting the French Republican Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar by **month**. http://www.gefrance.com/calrep/calen.htm Provides information on converting the French Republican Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar by **year**.
 * French Republican Calendar**

[|http://www.library.yale.edu/NotaBene/nbselector.html] A list of Yale library selectors, arranged by subject area.
 * Yale Library Selectors / Subject Specialists**