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.

Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading.A network of scholars in the fields of book history, history of libraries and history of reading.

History of Literacy. A special interest group of the History of Reading Special Interest Group of the International Reading Association, its website serves as a resource for this researach area.

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

Japan Society of Publishing Studies. (Japanese language only)

Library History Group (Great Britain). One of the oldest special interest groups of the Chartered Institute for Library and Information Professionals and the only group in the UK specifically devoted to the history of libraries and librarianship.

Printing Historical Society, London. Fosters interest in the history of printing and encourages both the study and the preservation of printing machinery, records, and equipment of historical value.

Society for Book Research in Austria. Promotes in-depth research on the book trade in Austria and co-ordinates study in the field, keeping a running bibliography of new publications and points to deficits in book history scholarship.

William Morris Society. Aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known.

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

Bibliographical Society (Great Britain). Promotes and encouragesstudy and research in historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography, the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting.

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.

Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.Focuses on all the studies related to physical bibliography: the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, typefounding, papermaking, bookbinding; palaeography and codicology; and textual bibliography.

Oxford Bibliographical Society. Encourages bibliographical research.

Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia.Promotes interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, and bibliography and textual criticism.

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.