American Antiquarian Society. An independent research library whose collections document the life of America's people from the colonial era through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

American Printing History Association. Encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. An interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period, from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

Center for the Book, Library of Congress. Using the resources of the Library of Congress, its mission is to stimulate interest in books and reading, including literacy and library promotion and encouraging the historical study of books, reading, and the printed word.

Early Book Society. Formed to bring together all those who are interested in any aspect of the study of manuscripts and early printed books.

International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media. Aimed at the advancement of empirical literary research through international and interdisciplinary cooperation

Bibliographical Society of America. The oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.

Bibliographical Society of Canada.Its goal is the scholarly study of the history, description, and transmission of texts in all media and formats, with a primary emphasis on Canada.

American Historical Print Collectors Society. Encourages the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of original historical American prints that are 100 or more years old.

The Grolier Club. America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). Dedicated to the study of the world's first mechanized "mass" press--newspapers, magazines, and other serial publications--in 19th-century Britain and its Empire.

American Journalism Historians Association.Fosters research and teaching of journalism history and to provide a forum and tobe a resource, encompassing a wide range of mass communication studies.

American Museum of Papermaking. A resource on the history of paper and paper technology.

International Association of Paper Historians. Facilitates communication between paper historians, archivists, librarians, conservators, art historians, specialists in books, printing and technology, associations of the paper and publishing industries, and handicrafts and art dealing with paper.

IFLA Library History Special Interest Group. Part of the international body representing the interests of library and information servicesand their users, this group concentrates on themes of library history, and experience of general significance, and theoretical foundations of the field.

Briar Press: A Letterpress Community. A community of printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress.

SHARP-L. The discussion group of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

J-HISTORY, journalism history discussion

Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources. Laura Sue Fuderer

Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book Culture (1989-2003). James E. May