Editing Playing card (section)

== Research ==
[[Columbia University]]'s Rare Book and Manuscript Library holds the [[Albert Field (archivist)|Albert Field]] Collection of Playing Cards, an archive of over 6,000 individual decks from over 50 countries and dating back to the 1550s.<ref name="nbc-ap-columbia">{{cite web |agency=Associated Press |title=N.Y card collection includes 6,356 decks |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna27148893 |website=NBC News |access-date=30 July 2019 |date=2008-10-12}}</ref> In 2018 the university digitized over 100 of its decks.<ref name="lib-albert-field">{{cite web |title=Collections News {{!}} Albert Field Playing Cards go online |website=News from Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library|url=https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/2018/09/10/collections-news-albert-field-playing-cards-go-online/ |publisher=Columbia University Libraries |access-date=30 July 2019 |date=September 10, 2018}}</ref>

Since 2017, [[Vanderbilt University]] has been home to the 1,000-volume [[George Clulow and United States Playing Card Co. Gaming Collection]], which has been called one of the "most complete and scholarly collections [of books on cards and gaming] that has ever been gathered together".<ref name="vanderbilt-17">{{cite web |last1=Owens |first1=Anne Marie Dear |title=Vanderbilt now home to extraordinary gaming collection |url=https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/08/25/vanderbilt-now-home-to-extraordinary-gaming-collection/ |publisher=Vanderbilt University |access-date=28 July 2019 |date=August 25, 2017}}</ref>

=== Journals ===
Journals and magazines dedicated to the subject of playing cards include:

* ''Das Blatt'' – German publication primarily on playing card designs and history
* ''[[The Playing-Card]]'' – international publication incorporating research articles on playing cards and card games
* ''Clear the Decks'' – American publication of [[52 Plus Joker]]