Michèle Cloonan has written about all areas of the preservation field, from conservation treatments to the preservation of digital media. She has also written about bookbinding history and women in the book trade. Publications since 2000:

"The Preservation of Digital Content," Portal, April 2005. Co-authored with Shelby Sanett.

"Ranganathan Online: Do Digital Libraries Violate the Third Law?" Library Journal, April 1, 2005. Co-authored with John Dove.

"Alice Millard and the Gospel of Beauty and Taste," chapter in Women in Print (University of Wisconsin); Fall 2005.

"Monumental Preservation," American Libraries, September 2004.

"The Preservation of Moving Images." Co-authored with Karen F. Gracy, Advances in Librarianship, 2004.

"The Continuing Development of Special Collections Librarianship." Co-authored with Sidney Berger, Library Trends, Fall 2003.

"Look at Library Scholarship in Practice," in "Is LIS Wearing Blinders?" Library Journal, September 15, 2003.

"Preservation." International Encyclopedia of Information and Library Science. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, Spring 2003.

"Robert Gordon Vosper, 1914-1994," Dictionary of American Library Biography, 2nd supplement. Libraries Unlimited, 2003.

"Preservation Strategies for Electronic Records: Where We Are Now: Obliquity and Squint?" Co-authored with Shelby Sanett. American Archivist, Spring/Summer 2002.

"Comparing Preservation Strategies and Practices for Electronic Records." Co-authored with Shelby Sanett. The New Review of Academic Librarianship 2000, published 2001.

"W(h)ither Preservation?" Library Quarterly, April 2001.

"Preservation Strategies for Electronic Records: Highlights from an InterPARES Study," Authentic Records in the Electronic Age: Proceedings of the InterPARES Symposium. Beijing, China: National Archives, November 2001.

"Preservation Needs Assessment." California Preservation Clearinghouse, September 2000, http://cpc.stanford.edu and http://palimpsest.stanford.edu.

"Up, Up and Away." California Libraries, July 2000.

Book reviewer for Libraries & Culture and Library Quarterly.