March 31, 2025
Core
- Octave Uzanne, “The End of Books” (1894), external website
- (Watch, ~30 minutes) Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weiss, “Farewell etaoin shrdlu” (1978), external website
- Élika Ortega, “The Many Books of the Future: Print-Digital Literatures” (2020), external website
- Matthew Kirschenbaum, “Archives without Dust,” from Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage (2021), resource via library
Penumbra
- Sarah Werner, “Binding” from Studying Early Printed Books, 1450-1800 : A Practical Guide (2019), resource via library
- Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, “Bookbindings Before 1800, “Bookbinding Tools, Stamps, Dies, Leather, and Cloth,” and “Bookbindings After 1800” from the “Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day” Exhibition, external website
- Hazel Wilkinson, James Briggs, and Dirk Gorissen, “Computer Vision and the Creation of a Database of Printers’ Ornaments” (2021), external website
- Ryan Cordell, “Material Cultures of the Digital” (2022), external website
- Klint Finley, “What We Can Learn from Vintage Computing” (2022), external website
- James A. Hodges, “Forensic Approaches to Evaluating Primary Sources in Internet History Research: Reconstructing Early Web-Based Archival Work (1989–1996)” (2021), resource via library
- James A. Hodges and Ciaran B. Trace, “Preserving Algorithmic Systems: A Synthesis of Overlapping Approaches, Materialities and Contexts,” Journal of Documentation (2023), resource via library
Book Lab: A Stitch in Time
Additional resources and tutorials for the binding lab can be found here.