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- ↑ Eleanor F. Shevlin; Eric N. Lindquist (2010). "Center for the Book and the History of the Book". Libraries & the Cultural Record . 45 (1): 56–69. doi:10.1353/lac.0.0112. JSTOR 20720639. S2CID 161311744.
- ↑ "News from the Center for the Book: Book Historians Gather for SHARP Conference," Library of Congress Information Bulletin 53 (September 19, 1994): 354-57.
- ↑ Shevlin, Eleanor F, and Eric N Lindquist. “The Center for the Book and the History of the Book.” Information & Culture 45, no. 1 (2010): 56–69
- ↑ "Sharpweb.org" . Retrieved November 28, 2017.
- ↑ Cyndia Susan Clegg (2001). "History of the Book: An Undisciplined Discipline?". Renaissance Quarterly . 54 (1): 221–245. doi:10.2307/1262225. JSTOR 1262225. S2CID 163717664.
- ↑ SHARP History Book Prize.
