Selected E-Resources

Artists' Books Online (publicly available)
"Artists' Books Online is designed to promote critical engagement with artists books and to provide access to a digital repository of metadata, scans, and commentary. The project serves several different communities: artists, scholars and critics, librarians and curators, and interested readers."
(From the web site)

Artists' Books in Libraries: A Resource Guide (publicly available)
A concise guide to resources for librarians, students, and artists alike. Includes an annotated bibliography of important books in the field.

Book Arts Web (publicly available)
The Book Arts Web site maintains an extensive network of links to book arts-related information. It also maintains a listserv for interested people and a searchable archive of the listserv's messages.

Book Arts Classified / Book Arts Directory (publicily available)
A commercial site providing two services: classified ads announcing book arts events and services; and a directory of people and businesses involved in book arts, organized in useful categories.

Book arts on the Web: An introduction to selected resources (publicly available)
This wiki is maintained by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), and features an extensive list of Web-based resources on the book arts.

Selected Print Resources

History and Criticism

The Century of Artists' Books, by Johanna Drucker
Art Library Reserve N7433.3 .D78 2004; Art Library N7433.3 .D78 1995

Artists' Books: A critical anthology and sourcebook, by Joan Lyons
Art Library N7433.3 .A75 1985

No longer innocent: Book art in America, 1960-1980, by Betty Bright
Art Library Z1033.F5 B75 2005

Speaking of book art: Interviews with British and American book artists, by Cathy Courtney
Art Library N7433.35.G7 C68 1999

Artists books: a critical survey of the literature, by Stefan Klima
Art Library N7433.3 .K64 1998

Libros de artista / Artists' Books
Art Library N7433.3 .L53 2003 v.1 and v.2
Davis Library N7433.3 .L53 2003 v.1 and v.2, c.2

For the Artist: Technical and How-to

Bookbinding for Book Artists, by Keith Smith
Art Library Z266 .S59 1998 c. 2
Davis Library Z266 .S59 1998

Structure of the Visual Book, by Keith Smith
Art Library Z116.A3 S58 1984 c. 2
Information & Library Science Library Z116.A3 S58 1984

Text in the Book Format, by Keith Smith
Art Library Z116.A3 S59 1995; Art Library Z116.A3 S59 1989

(These are just several of Keith Smith's excellent instructional books. To see a full list of his books at UNC, click here.)

Creating Artists' Books, by Sarah Bodman
Art Library N7433.3 .B63 2005

The Penland Book of Handmade Books: Master classes in bookmaking techniques
Art Library Z271 .P45 2004
North Carolina Collection C378 P37M

How to Make Books, by Esther Smith
Art Library Z271 .S63 2007

Japanese Bookbinding: Instructions from a master craftsman, by Kosanjin Ikegami
Art Library Z270.J3 I3713 1986 c. 2
Information & Library Science Library Z270.J3 I3713 1986