Rare Book News
- NPR: How Librarians can Save the World "Johnson favors quirky stories about cyber-missionaries or tattooed librarians over the day-to-day operations of community libraries and issues of budget constraints. She finds that a group defined by discretion and helpfulness in person is often "clamorous" online, where hip librarians... (More)
- Online Bookselling in Turkey "By making access to books easier, online bookstores are also credited with helping the publishing sector. Kizir contends that the number of people who are avid readers has at least doubled over the past 10 years thanks to the attractive... (More)
- Rare Books for Cardiff University "The 14,000 books, which include rare bibles and atlases, will be bought for £1.2 million by the University with help from the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Welsh Assembly Government." Read this article.... (More)
- Biblical Manuscripts Reunited "Two parts of an ancient biblical manuscript separated across centuries and continents were reunited for the first time in a joint display Friday, thanks to an accidental discovery that is helping illuminate a dark period in the history of the... (More)
- Yale's Beinecke Library Expands Online Presence "The Beinecke’s online exhibitions garnered more than 321,000 hits in 2009, as compared to the roughly 75,000 visitors to the building, according to statistics compiled by the Beinecke." Read this article.... (More)
- J. D. Salinger at Princeton Library "As the literary world waits to find out what, if anything, J.D. Salinger wrote in his New Hampshire hideaway, fans of the reclusive author can satisfy their longing for new works by reading five of his unpublished stories that can... (More)
- Jose Mindlin: Bibliophile "Born to Ukrainian parents, Jose Mindlin owned over 38,000 books and was a member of the prestigious Brazilian Academy of Letters. In 2006, he donated about half of his collection to the University of Sao Paulo, mostly on topics related... (More)
- $4.25 Million Donated to U. of Penn for Rare Books "The gift, in addition to other donations, will be used to turn the sixth floor of Van Pelt — where the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is housed — into a Special Collections Center that creates a more functional and... (More)
- Student Contest for Collecting Rare Books "The prizes, which range from $250 to $2,500, are awarded to the winning bibliophiles -- and their school libraries -- for a collection of rare books." Read this article.... (More)
- Thomas Book: Bookseller in Salem, MA "While Thomas Boss, a rare-book dealer in Salem, doesn't specialize in modern American literature, he knows a thing or two about the antiquarian book business. Boss talked to The Salem News recently about what effect Salinger's death might have on... (More)
- New York's Remington Museum Setting Up Library "For the past few weeks, Mrs. Jaunzems has been classifying and labeling books, magazines, exhibit catalogues and professional journals by and about the artist and the period to set up the museum's first reference library." Read this article.... (More)
- "Termites Feasting on Gandhi Books" "Books on Mahatma Gandhi are an endangered lot in his own hermitage, the Sabarmati ashram in Ahmedabad. Over a hundred books on the Mahatma and some of his photographs were consigned to a fire last week after termites feasted on... (More)
- The Fate of Independent Bookstores "First was The Book Mark. Located in Queens, New York, it was in walking distance of our family's home up until we moved when I was in sixth grade. It was owned by two spinster sisters named Rose and Esther... (More)
- Somerset Maugham in India "Nearly seven decades ago, a public library in a small provincial town in India surprised famous English writer William Somerset Maugham with its immense collection of books and quality of service rendered to a society yearning for knowledge." Read this... (More)
- Free eBooks at the British Library "The British Library has announced that users of Amazon's Kindle e-reader will be able to download more than 65,000 19th century classics for free this coming spring in a special format that will have the look of a genuine first... (More)
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