Welcome to Biblio Wonk

This is Paul Romaine's website sandbox for some professional and personal interests. Not all parts are up-to-date.

Libraries and Conservation

A small number of selected links to library-profession or conservation sites.

Rare Book, Book-Buying and Book History Sites. Links on where to buy rare books on the net. Also links to bibliophile groups.
Library & Librarianship Links. Unrelated to data and web research: books, and some other things. [obsolete link]
Preservation and Conservation links. Links related to Conservation in libraries, museums, etc. [Obsolete link] For now visit the Stanford Conservation Online site. COoL is the website for conservation. As an umbrella site, run by Walter Henry at Stanford, it includes the Abbey Newsletter, Guild of Bookworkers, American Institute for Conservation (AIC), and archives for a number of important mailing lists including Exlibris (Rare Books), BookArts and ConsDist (Conservation Distribution List).
Bibliophilic Organizations

Printing, Type & Letterforms

Some links to sites about printing, type and letterforms. My most current links on printing, letterpress and history of the book are on the APHA website.

Printing type: digital and metal sources for type. Links to sites relating to metal type (an increasingly scarce commodity) and digital type (whose foundries proliferate like spring mushrooms).
APHA's Links page (offsite, maintained by me) on letterpress printing and type.
Links and Notes on handwriting in C18 America. Forthcoming (draft).

Printing History

Printing History Listserv (Not yet functional)
(UNDER CONSTRUCTION/Research NOTES) Millar Ritchie, Disciple of Baskerville and fine printer of London. I am compiling a bibliography and short biography of Ritchie, a relatively unknown fine printer of the late 18th and early 19th C. Hansard called him one of the first followers of Baskerville. Despite positive comments from Hansard (who employed the ruined printer) and Harry Carter in the 20th C, he's little-known today. [This section is generated from a Treepad research database.]

Library Software (links offsite)

A small number of selected links to library-profession or conservation sites.

Open Source Software and Libraries Bibliography, maintained by Brenda Chawner, a library Ph.D. at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Open standards and software for bibliographies and cataloging. Maintained at SourceForge by Bruce D'Arcus and John J. Lee. Emphasis on GNU, Perl, Unix, etc.
Open Source Systems for Libraries, a blog-style site (like slash-dot), run by Dan Chudnov.
LITA Guide no. 9 Open Source Software for Libraries (book description only).
OpenBiblio: A Library System that's Free, an open source, automated library system written in PHP containing OPAC, circulation, cataloging, and staff administration functionality.
Koha an open source integrated library system is "a full catalogue, opac, circulation and acquisitions system." Geared towards public libraries. Requires Linux, Apache and Perl and MySQL. (Imports from MARC but can't yet store or export to MARC.)

Other Pages on this Site, Mostly Personal Interest

Stereocards. General information on stereocards and links to my collection (for my own online checking while traveling; also Word report exported version)
New York City Photographs by Paul and table of all photos
Vintage New York photographs. (forthcoming)
Links to PR's home page at Pipeline.
Links to PR's Genealogy page at Rootsweb.
Links to PR's Genealogy Resources Page
Flickr account. My flickr account, including some vintage and some original photographs.
My Picassaweb photos (most of which are private and not available).

My Google News Reader Feed, mostly on Celiac Disease

You can also look at my shared articles here.

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About the pen and book logo: the logotype derives from the Briar Press website's ornamental cuts. I've added (sky) blue and (limestone) brown from my photograph of the Empire State Building, see my old photo galleries.