Acknowledgements

Current Version

The Bibliographical Society is pleased to have achieved the launch of Version 2 of 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 and member of Council, who managed the rescue project, architected the integrated solution, and performed the extensive software engineering and systems implementation on a volunteer basis.

• Sidney Richards, a life member of The Society, who made a significant volunteer contribution performing 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 J.A. Lavin - for generously allowing the project access to and use of his unpublished work.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

For further background information, see the History of the Project.