These are links to resources about and collections of artists' books. Much like the Reanimation Library investigates the form and concept of the library, artists' books investigate the form and concept of the book. The Reanimation Library invites book artists to use its collection for source material and inspiration.

Art Metropole

Founded in Toronto in 1974 by the artists' group General Idea, Art Metropole is a non-profit corporation that specializes in contemporary art in multiple format: artists' books, multiples, video, audio, and electronic media. They also publish, promote, exhibit and distribute artists' products in various formats.

Artists' Book Image Database at the Otis College of Art & Design

The goal of this artists' book collection is not to create a comprehensive archive, but rather to provide a valuable teaching resource available to art historians, artists, and students. Since the collection is available on only a limited basis, providing access to the books via online images has become a priority.

Booklyn Artists Alliance

Founded in 1999, Booklyn is an artist-run, non-profit, consensus-governed, artist and bookmakers organization headquartered in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Booklyn's mission is to promote artist books as an art form and an educational resource, to provide the general public and educational institutions with services and programming involving contemporary artist books, and to assist artists in exhibiting, distributing and publishing artist books.

Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection is housed in the John M. Flaxman Library and allows for a selective yet broad overview of the field. It has its own online catalog which can be searched by terminology specific to artists' books. International in scope, the collection is strongest in works by American and European artists with work dating from the early 1960s to the present. In addition to over 4000 artists' books, periodicals and multiples, the collection also houses reference materials to support the study of artists' books, various archives related to the field, and an extensive array of artists' book exhibition catalogs, pamphlets, and other ephemera.

The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection: Books as Aesthetic Objects at Florida Atlantic University

The Arthur and Mata Jaffe Collection: Books as Aesthetic Objects consists primarily of visual books created more for their artistic merit than for their informational content. The collection which is more than 4,000 titles, includes the complete collection of the International Society of Copier Artists Quarterly (ISCA), important works such as Keith Smith's "Book 91 (String Book"), an extensive collection of the work of Leonard Baskin and the Gehenna Press, numerous pieces by book artists in the regional South Florida community, and the Rosa Trillo-Clough Archive of Italian Futurism, which includes many original printed items of great interest to typographers.

KettleStitch

KettleStitch is a website committed to cultivating a dialogue between artists, designers, craftspeople, librarians, educators, and curators. This site was launched specifically to better facilitate a common ground between the many traditions and perspectives relating to the book arts. Their hope is to bridge the gap between these professional fields and to show examples that inspire and challenge our understanding and definition of the book.

Mobilivre Bookmobile Project

The Mobilivre Bookmobile Project is a community arts initiative founded by the Bookmobile collective, a diverse group of emerging North American artists and community activists. It explores the long held tradition of bookmobiles as traveling libraries that promote the distribution of information.The bookmobile travels across the United States and Canada in a vintage airstream trailer visiting a variety of communities. Its annual traveling collection of approximately 300 book works range from handmade and one-of-a-kind to photocopied and small press publications.

Ooga Booga

Located in Chinatown in Los Angeles, Ooga Booga is a store that specializes in selling artists' books, zines, mulitples, mixtapes, locally-designed clothing, and the occasional snack.

Printed Matter, Inc.

Based in New York City, Printed Matter, Inc. is the world's largest non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of publications made by artists. Founded in 1976, Printed Matter continues to foreground the book as an alternative venue for artists' projects and ideas. Recognized for years as an essential voice in the increasingly diversified art world conversations and debates, Printed Matter is dedicated to the examination and interrogation of the changing role of artists' publications in the landscape of contemporary art.

Yale Library Arts of the Book Collection

The Arts of the Book Collection is a research facility housed in the Sterling Memorial Library. It contains both examples of and reference materials about the arts related to the book. Topics such as binding, book history, illustration, calligraphy, graphic design, paper making and decorative papers, typography and more are represented. Contemporary examples of artists' books and fine printing are housed alongside more traditional publications.