Sid Huttner

Review of complex three part book: conservation, termination for and description of bookbindings; Dag Hammadi Codices; and Creating Bookbinding Models as a means of study.

A biography of Henry I. Megarey, arguably the finest bookbinder working in the U.S. in the first half of the 19th century. The study is based on the study of a specific Megarey binding, commissioned by the Reverend Thomas Breintnall for a colleague, the Reverend Henry P. Powers (whose lives are also sketched).

A Question and Response concerning a complex proposal made to a library from a foundation wishing to benefit a local author. The response outlines some strategies that might be considered. This short piece appeared in News Update: A Friends of Libraries U.S.A. Publication. Philadelphia: FOLUSA, 28:2 (April 2005).

"The Publishers’ Trade List Annual and Book Collecting:" When a book has been produced in hundred of editions, keeping track of them requires help. Article for Caxtonian XII:9 (2004) which outlines the usefulness of PTLA 1873-1930 to much bibliographic work involving U.S. imprints.

Summary review and report of the 1990 RBMS Preconference. its theme was "The Next Decade: Issues, Strategies, and Opportunities for Special Collections in the 1990s."

Summary of key events relating to U.S. library special collections departments (and special collections libraries) during 1989 (and incorporating key events from 1988).

Bibliography of "Women Writers in the Proletarian Literature Collection," co- authored with Kenneth Kirkpatrick, Assistant Professor of English. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 8:1 (Spring 1989).

Introduction to three seminar papers from the 1988 RBMS Pre-conference (29th, New Orleans) on Interlibrary loan of special collections materials presented by Thomas V. Lance, H. Thomas Hickerson & Anne R. Kenney, and James Woolley.

An exploration of how early American city directories can be used effectively in biographical and other historical research. The article primarily cites New York City directories 1786-1850.