Collections

The Structure of the Book Publishing Industry in Canada (CC BY-NC-ND)

This journal is a collection of student writing for The Structure of the Book Publishing Industry in Canada course offered in the Fall of 2017 for Publishing 391 at Simon Fraser University. All papers have been peer reviewed by the students, received instructor feedback, and revised for publication.

Videos

Centre for the History of the Book (CC BY)

A series of videos designed to introduce key skills for Book Historians. The videos provide guidance on how to handle rare books, how to tell a quarto from an octavo, how paper is made and where watermarks come from, how to read and write a collation, how to use a scholarly edition and more. These videos offer a useful resource for mastering research techniques that can be difficult to learn from a book.