Acquisitions	This section presents links to free online resources on rare books (of any discipline), in particular to those I have found useful in my day-to-day work. The index on the left follows the structure of the general index of this site. Websites which cover extensively the topic of rare books are listed under "other sites".
Cataloguing
Preservation
Security
Digitalization
Other sites

ACQUISITIONS OF RARE BOOKS

• Alibris (rare and hard to find books)
• Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America
• Bibliofind
• Octavo (vendor of e-rare books)

CATALOGUING OF RARE BOOKS

Rules, manuals and tutorials

• ISBD(A) 2nd rev. ed.
• Sistema Bibliotecario Nazionale (Italian National Library System) by Giuliana Sapori in Italian
• Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books, 2nd Edition (Library of Congress)
• DCRM (S) Descriptive Cataloguing of Rare Materials (Serials) revised draft, Yale University
• A lesson in rare book cataloguing by students of the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The University of British Columbia

Format

• IFLA's guidelines for using UNIMARC for Older Monographic Publications (ANTIQUARIAN)
• MARC Standards (Library of Congress)
• Understanding MARC bibliographic
• BIBCO Core Record Standard (DCRB)

Reference sources

Biography

• From Gallica (Bibliothèque National de France): Barbier, Antoine-Alexandre (1765-1825), Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes. (1872-1879) - 4 volumes

Calendars

• French Revolutionary Calendar Conversion by Eric Gans
• Islamic/Christian Calendar Conversion

Dictionaries

• ODLIS (Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science) by Joan M. Reitz
• Piccolo dizionario di bibliofilia (by Roberto Campagna for Bottegantica)

History

• World History
• World Statesmen since 1700

Language

• Glossary of bibliographic information by language (Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada)
• Bibliotheks-Glossar (B. Wiegandt Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG))
• A table for transliterating Greek characters (Penn State University Libraries,Cataloging Services)
• Glossary of common Latin terms by R. Maxwell
• Greek and Latin dictionary tools (The Perseus Project)
• Vernacular Designators (Princeton University Library's Cataloging Documentation)

Place names

• Latin place names in early printed books (Catholic History)
• The RBMS/BSC Latin Place Names

Standard reference works

• Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Bibliomania)
• Columbia Encyclopedia 6th ed. (Bartleby.com)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica
• List of Popes (Catholic Encyclopaedia)

National catalogues

• Austria: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Nominalkatalog 1501 - 1929
• France: Bibliothèque National
• Germany: Die Digitale Bibliothek
• Italy: Indice SBN (Internet Culturale)
• Spain: Biblioteca Nacional
• Sweden: The Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries (LIBRIS)
• UK: The British Library Integrated Catalogue
• U.S.A.: Library of Congress
• National Library Catalogues Worldwide (The University of Queensland)

PRESERVATION OF RARE BOOKS

• Book Care and Repair Resources (Tippecanoe County Public Library)
• COOL Conservation Online (Stanford University Libraries)
• IFLA principles for the care and handling of library material [Adobe Acrobat PDF format 374 KB]
• The Library of Congress Preservation
• Preserving the past: a guide for conserving library collections (State Library of Victoria, Australia)

SECURITY IN LIBRARIES

• Guidelines for the security of rare books, manuscript and other special collections (ALA, ACRL)
• Furti di libri (ALAI, Associazione Librai Antiquari d'Italia)

DIGITIZED TEXTS AND IMAGES

• Gallica (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)
• Il libro antico digitale (di Raffaella Tamiozzo)
• Sample Provenance Image Database (University of London)
• Digital Materials from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
• Other Digitized Print Materials (Library of Congress)
• The European Library

OTHER SITES

• Book Information Website
• Il libro antico di Angela Nuovo, Aldo Coletto e Graziano Ruffini
• Rare books on the web by Albert Masters
• Directory of web resources for the rare material cataloger (RBMS of the ALA)