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List of contents
List of illustrations
Foreword by Peter Fox
Preface
List of acronyms
1.Beginning
2.Johnson Reprint Corporation
3.Chadwyck-Healey
4.Cambridge and our own production
5.Official publications
6.Visual images on microfilm
7.Carving up the centuries
8.The Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
9.Finding the archives
10.The New York Times
11.France and Spain
12.Black Studies
13.The National Security Archive
14.The last years of microform
15.The silver catalyst
16.Other digital ventures
17.English Poetry
18.Patrologia Latina
19.Periodicals Contents Index
20.Publishing online
21.German literature
22.Red Archives
23.Towards the end
24.The end
Appendix 1: History of microform publishing
Appendix 2: Microform technology
Notes
Index
About the author
Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey founded the Chadwyck-Healey publishing group in 1973 and has been at the forefront of academic publishing since that time. He is an Honorary Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford.
Summary
Since the 1960s, Charles Chadwyck-Healey has been at the forefront of library publishing and the company he founded in 1973 remains a familiar brand name to academic libraries around the world. In this wide ranging book, Chadwyck-Healey charts his personal history of this constantly changing field, from the earliest days of reprint publishing, through microfilm, microfiche and CD-ROM publishing to the current digital age. He describes the early years of using computers in publishing and the introduction of the CD-ROM which was soon supplanted by online. Chadwyck-Healey was one of the first publishers to use both these new media. Focusing upon leading publishing endeavours around the world – in the USA, UK, Europe and post-Soviet Russia – this book includes vivid and informative first-hand accounts of such landmark publishing projects as the US National Security Archive, the catalogue of the British Library on CD-ROM, and Literature Online (LION).
Foreword
An international first-hand history of the changing face of library publishing – from the earliest days of reprint publishing, through microfilm, microfiche and CD-ROMs to the digital age – written by a pioneer of the industry.
Additional text
Fascinating ... should be of interest beyond the usual audience for a book of library and publishing history.
