THE RAREBOOKSGROUP

RESOURCES

RARE BOOKS

• MARC and Rare Book Librarians - information and discussion on the use of the rare books' fields, news updates, and links to the OPACs of libraries using these fields.
  
  
• The COOL Dictionary of Conservation and Book Binding Terms - a dictionary of descriptive terminology.
  
  
• The Bookbinding Manual - a bookbinding tutorial.
  
  
• Latin names of printing towns - from the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue Project.
  
  
• Latin Place Names found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 and their vernacular equivalents in AACR2 form. Sponsored by the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee, and includes the country codes for each entry.
  

LIBRARY RESOURCES

• General Reference - from Sheffield University, including Webster's English Dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus
  
  
• BUBL - the Bulletin Board for Libraries
  
  
• NISS - information gateway.
  
  
• World-Wide Resources - from the Bodleian Library, including a special section of library resources and Bard.
  
  

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