Acknowledgements

Current Version

The Bibliographical Society is pleased to have achieved the launch of Version 2 the London Book Trades digital resource.

This is not just standing up a copy of the wiki (previously hosted by Oxford University) but rather it is a complete re-engineering of both the back-end database and front-end presentation of the information, a product of the detailed analysis of the original database and website.

The Society wishes to thank:

• David Macfarlane, FSA, head of the BibSoc Web Working Group, who managed the rescue project, architected the integrated solution, and performed the extensive software engineering and systems implemetation on a volunteer basis.

• Sidey Richards, a lifetime BibSoc member, who made a significant volunteer contribution providing systems analysis and testing activities. She also suggested many of the new enhancements, including the ground-breaking confidence scoring functionality for data quality assurance.

• David Shaw for his constant support, wise advice, and thoughtful and penetrating notes as the new site evolved.

• Giles Bergel and Ian Gadd for retrieving and preserving the 2008/9 version of Michael Turner's MS Access database

Original Project

Michael L Turner thanked the following for their significant contributions to his phases of this project:

• The Bodleian Library, Oxford University - for support to MLT over the years, and especially to a series of colleagues who have given particular assistance with technical help.
• Dr. Christine Ferdinand - post-doctoral fellow under the Leverhulme grant, who worked solidly on the project for two years and continued to support the project throughout her career.
• Prof.J.A.Lavin - for generously allowing the project access to and use of his unpublished work.
• The Leverhulme Trust - for providing a grant to employ a post-doctral fellow to work on the project for two years.
• Prof.Donald F.McKenzie
• Robin Myers - formerly the Hon.Archivist to the Stationers' Company, for her ever willing support and help in providing access to the records under her care.
• Graham Pollard
• Esther Potter - for her support, particularly on working through the Jaffray Manuscripts in the British Library to provide information on early nineteenth century bookbinders.
• The Stationers' Company - for its enlightened attitude in making its recoreds available to generations of researchers.
• Florence Treadwell - for her generosity and support in providing acces to Michael Treadwell's papers.
• Prof.Michael Treadwell