Old Books, New Pedagogy: Special Collections and Archives in the Curriculum at Wesleyan University
http://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/schome/exhibit/Teaching/Pedagogy/home.htm

A summary of pedagogical project relying on the holdings in the Rare Book Room in the Olin Library at Wesleyan University. Some of the projects are more compelling than others--the analysis of a broadside collection, the introduction to a new annotated edition of a rare text, and the editing Shakespeare exercise are among the strongest. These projects tend to be longer and more complex than the course modules that I have developed, and they suggest a number of ways that faculty could design more elaborate archival work should they wish to do so.

The Martha Ballard Diary Website
http://dohistory.org/home.html

Martha Ballard was an 18 th-century American midwife, whose diary opens up a wealth of information regarding medical and social practices in the period. The website includes many useful elements: a History Toolkit (includes links to how to read probate records, how to read a graveyard, how to read a will, how to read 18 th C writing); online transcription exercises in which students are given a sample of Ballard’s handwriting asked to provide a line-by-line transcription; and scans of Ballard’s diary, with a magnifying glass (which can be used to study the diary in detail) and links on decoding the diary (including an analysis of her abbreviations, etc.)

University of Virginia Rare Book School
http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/

Arguably the most famous and influential rare book school in the United States. RBS sponsors a number of courses throughout the year, on bookbinding, book design, typography, book collecting, book history, illustration and printing, and manuscript analysis. Many of their courses include extensive reading lists, and often annotated bibliographies. The website also include links to other rare book schools, colloquia, etc. and documenting the recent interest in this field (UCLA, Texas A & M, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have all established programs in the field since 2000).

The Corvey Project at Sheffield Hallam University
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/corvey/corinne/adopt-an-author.htm

Adopt-an-Author is a subset of the Corvey Project, in which advanced undergraduates at Sheffield Hallam choose a little-known text from the University archives. The students then engage in research on the text ad the author, and write a series of essays: biographical essay on the author, a synopsis of the text, an account of contemporary response to the text, and an analysis of the text within the literature of the period. The essays are then published online, at the “Corinne” link of the Corvey Project.

Publisher's Bindings Online 1815-1930: The Art of Books
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/index.html

A generally useful website on 19 th-Century American book culture. The link called “Binding through the Decades” provides a very helpful decade by decade analysis of bookbinding in the U.S. with many graphics. The pedagogical materials are geared towards grades 4 through 12, although some may be adapted to college level work.

Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL)
http://marbl.library.emory.edu/visit-marbl/faculty

The MARBL website provides some suggestions of ways to integrate rare books and manuscripts into courses.

The Folger Library Undergraduate Seminar in Books and Early Modern Culture
http://www.folger.edu/Content/Collection/Undergraduate-Program/Undergraduate-Research-Seminar.cfm

A semester-long course taught by Dr. Sarah Werner for students at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and colleges and universities in the Folger Consortium (like WVU).

Colorado College's Minor Program in the Book
http://www.coloradocollege.edu/library/index.php/specialcollections/bookminor