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UPDATED February 6, 2002

 

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Museums & Institutional Resources
  • American Museum of Papermaking
  • Dime Novel Collection -- from the Library of Congress
  • Benjamin Franklin - Glimpses of the man -- from the Franklin Institute
  • Guide to Broadsides -- Collection, from Brown University
  • The New Yorker Collection: Drawing for The New Yorker magazine -- from the Library of Congress
  • New Wave Canada: The Coach House Press and the Small Press Movement in English Canada in the 1960s, by David McKnight, National Library of Canada
  • Pulp Fiction Collection: Popular American fiction magazines, 1920s-1950s -- from the Library of Congress
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     Books and Publishing
  • Project Gutenberg Home Page
     
    Organizations
    •  Medieval & Renaissance Studies
  • The Labyrinth: A Disciplinary Server for Medieval Studies, by D. Everhart and M. Irvine
  • Medieval Literature and History Page, by G. Furr
     
    Printing Technologies
     
    •  Copyright Laws
  • The Copyright Website -- by Benedict O'Mahoney
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    "Print situates words in space more relentlessly than writing ever did ... By and large, printed text are far easier to read than manuscript texts. The effects of the greater legibility of print are massive. The greater legibility makes for rapid, silent reading. Such reading in turn makes for a different relationship between the reader and the authorial voice in the text and calls for different styles of writing...
    Manuscript culture is producer-oriented ... Print is consumer- oriented ..."
    -- Walter Ong,
    "Print, Space, and Closure,"
    Communication in History,
    David Crowley &
    Paul Heyer, eds.
    (NY: Longman) 1995,
    p. 116