Like its parent organization, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, SHARP-L is devoted to forging connections among scholars in all disciplines who are working on the history of the printed word in any place or period. Available to anyone with access to the Internet through a university computer system or commercial service gateway, SHARP-L is an electronic forum (or "listserv") for the exchange of research ideas, information, queries, teaching aids, and conference and journal announcements, as well as discussion of any issues, large or small, that pertain to the scholarly study of the history of print culture.
If you're already accustomed to e-mail you won't have any trouble participating in SHARP-L. You can subscribe by email by simply sending the message SUB SHARP-L, followed on the same line by your name, to this address: listserv@listserv.indiana.edu. Alternatively, you can subscribe on the web. Either way, you'll receive a welcome notice confirming your subscription and explaining a little more about how the list works. If you have any questions about SHARP-L, please get in touch with the listowner, Patrick Leary.
SHARP-L has an efficient engine to search the archives of past postings by date, subject, author, and any words in the message. This retrieval system makes available to you over fifteen years' worth of queries and answers, and represents an invaluable resource for scholars in book history. As a matter of both law and courtesy, anyone wishing to quote from or reproduce a message from this archive should first obtain permission from its author.
Here are links to just a small sampling of the variety of discussions on SHARP-L that you might find interesting:
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