" He spent 14 years gathering the largest private collection of writings by 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow brought together in the last 50 years. In 2001, he sold his collection of more than 600 volumes, including inscribed first editions, letters, photographs and ephemera "for six figures" to Harvard's Houghton Library."
"COLLEGE PARK, Maryland: Nancy Drew is one of the most famous figures in American popular fiction and one of the most successful: More than 80 million copies of her mysteries have been sold since "The Secret of the Old Clock" was published in 1930. This year the spunky sleuth celebrates her 75th anniversary in print and to mark the occasion the University of Maryland Libraries present "Nancy Drew and Friends: Girls' Series Books Rediscovered."
This exhibit, which opens Sept. 1 in Hornbake Library and runs through the end of the year, examines the impact that girls' series books - from Nancy Drew to Trixie Belden, Cherry Ames and many more - have had on the life and culture of America, and showcases the Rose and Joseph Pagnani Collection of more than 300 books from 33 different series published from 1917-1980."
"With upwards of 400,000 books, 130,000 works of sheet music and seven million manuscripts, workers at the Lilly Library must rotate the large number of rare publications they display. John James Audubon's "Birds of America," however, remains in the foyer year-round."
"James Hogg. Scotland: His writings, buried for more than a century and a half in scattered periodicals, song-sheets, hand-written manuscripts, and rare first editions are now coming into the public domain at modest prices. Sixteen volumes of the new edition have now been published in hardback, and eight paperbacks have followed.
Unearthing the treasures of this literary Pompei from the rubble of neglect and indifference is hard but exciting and even revolutionary work, since it is changing our views of one of Scotland's major writers rapidly and forever."
"PORTLAND, Ore. - Think black and red when you picture Jim Carmin's 176-page roster of American Indian literature. The voluminous printout reads like a wish list for those interested in capturing the zeitgeist - or spirit of the times - of the nearly 40-year renaissance in fiction, poetry, short stories and drama penned by indigenous people of North America.
Black is for the titles Carmin's already acquired as part of Multnomah County Library's goal of creating a body of Native American literature within its Special Collections department. With $62,000 plus many extra unexpected donations, Carmin - the librarian in charge of the John Wilson Room Special Collections Room - has accumulated 1,000 items in the new collection. A quick scan of his lengthy roster, though, reveals enough red to underscore the idea that the goal is to cover the gamut."
"A million rare manuscripts, palm leaves, copper plates and age-old classical literature are to be digitised under a project jointly undertaken by Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the Indian ministry of communications and information technology.
CMU will provide proprietary software and hardware to the Digital Library of India (DLI) for $5 million."
"In 2004 Loreto Apilado began conducting a six-session workshop on book repair at the Lopez Memorial Museum for collectors, librarians and individuals who want to learn the right way to preserve books. The “right way,” stresses Apilado, begins by first studying a book’s anatomy, and the respective tools designed to address each of its specific damages."
"PARIS: Literary fame is ephemeral, and books that once announced events of world importance become little more than extremely expensive collectibles.
When the first part of the library of the rare-book seller Pierre Berès, who spent six decades tracking the first editions of works that changed the course of Western culture, comes up at Drouot in a sale conducted by Frédéric Chambre on Oct. 28, bibliophiles from around the world will be there, furiously competing over the spoils. And yet most of them would find it difficult to sum up with reasonable accuracy the substance of books that they carry away like trophies rather than literary monuments."
"WAYNESBORO - An anonymous donor has given a Geneva Bible to Trinity United Church of Christ.
The only condition - that the church sell or otherwise dispose of the Bible before the end of this calendar year, with proceeds going to the general operating fund of the church.
This Bible contains 554 leaves - or pages. On "The 700 Club" broadcasts in the late 1990s, single leaves from a Geneva Bible were sold for $1,000 each. Today, individual leaves of high quality sell in galleries in New York and elsewhere for $300 to $400 apiece."
"Pierpont Morgan's name resonates as few others do. He was Wall Street's most powerful man. His mergers and acquisitions included the creation of the first billion-dollar corporation, U.S. Steel. He was America's greatest art collector in our golden age of collecting. And he was one of Manhattan's great patrons of architecture. Morgan either built or was involved in the building of such buildings as Madison Square Garden at 26th Street, the Metropolitan Club, Grand Central Terminal, the north and south wings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (of which he was president), the New York Yacht Club, and the University Club.
The building that bears Morgan's name is the Pierpont Morgan Library. Actually, this is a group of buildings, on 36th Street between Madison and Park Avenues and on Madison between 36th and 37th Streets. Morgan built only one. And it's worth taking a look at now."
"NEW ROCHELLE — Former members of the Thomas Paine National Historic Association are furious over the sale of some of Paine's works — including a first edition of "Common Sense" that some say helped sway New York state to join the American Revolution — to pay for museum repairs and to set up an interest-bearing fund."
"Currently undergoing renovations, this main library, like its other branches, have all automated systems. Recently, a new self-checkout system was installed in the main library, where checking out the books has become even more convenient. One of the branches in Um Sequim is totally electronic. It's also the first full eLibrary in the region.
Mohammed Jasim Al Oraidi, Head of the Section, Public Libraries, said: "The Public Libraries cover all aspects of life, whether it be political, economical, social or religious. It also has a vast collection of fiction and factual books. Public Libraries stress upon three aspects: size, format and topics. The size is in millions, the formatting is in different types of periodicals as well as books, available in both traditional as well as modern formats."
"SHRUBA MUKHERJEE writes about the National Mission for Manuscripts which has taken upon itself the task of preserving and documenting rare, though neglected, manuscripts that would otherwise be lost forever."
"Elizabeth Kostova takes advantage of all the vampire literature, but extends it well beyond that of any other author. She digs into the medieval world that produced Dracula, and especially the rare manuscripts, scrolls and books that relate to him.
The plot revolves around a series of unusual, ancient books that appear mysteriously in the studies of noted historians. The books are blank save for a double page illustration of a dragon and a simple map. It is supposed to lead the way to the grave of Dracula."
Napoleon: "It is said that the diminutive conqueror's appendage was removed following his 1921 death and passed along with many other possessions to the home of a priest who attended the autopsy. Many years and sales later, the collection found its way into the hands of an American rare book collector, who put it on display at New York's Museum of French Art. A report at the time said the appendage resembled "a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or shriveled eel." Syracuse University urologist John K. Lattimer, a collector of the eccentric, purchased the item for $3,000 in the 1970s, the last known transaction involving the relic."
"COLLEGEVILLE — The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library at St. John's University has met a fund-raising goal that keeps it in the running for a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The NEH will provide $1 for every $4 raised by the HMML for its Malta Study Center as part of a four-year fundraising drive that began in August 2003....
The Malta Study Center collection at HMML contains more than 16,000 documents, dossiers of documents and a research collection of 800 books from Malta. It is one of a few libraries in the United States that actively collects books and other works about the history of Malta, and researches the role of Malta as a crossroads of the Christian and Muslim worlds."
"Rochester publisher BOA Editions Ltd. has sold a 10-year archive of materials to the University of Rochester’s Rare Books and Special Collections Library for an undisclosed sum.
Since its beginning in 1976, BOA has published more than 170 books of American poetry and poetry in translation.
The Rare Books and Special Collections Library has finalized the purchase of materials dated 1996 to 2005. The first collection of the BOA archive, 1976 to 1995, is held at Yale University’s Beinecke Library."
"The historic Picton Reading Room in Liverpool library is to be restored after winning a £16m government grant.
The imposing columns and dome of the 153-year-old building will undergo extensive repair work for the first time.
Once completed, rare books and the seven miles of archives, including letters from Queen Victoria, Disraeli and Florence Nightingale, will go on display to the public."
"These New England natural and historic treasures need attention:
The John Adams site in Quincy, with 11 historic buildings dating to 1720 and 14,000 historic volumes, including the book collection of John Quincy Adams. Federal funding to maintain the park and preserve its historic artifacts dropped from $507,000 in 2002 to $494,000 in 2004, even as the visitors increased by 65,426 in those two years, according to National Park Service figures."
"The premises of once highly guarded Amar Mahal, which was residence of Dogra rulers would now be thrown open for the intelligentsia and litterateurs.
Former Sadar-e-Riyasat and Member Parliament Dr Karan Singh said that, the Amar Mahal that houses the rich treasure of over 25000 rare books and manuscripts especially on the selective faculties of History, Political Science, Hindi, Sanskrit, et al has entered into an agreement with the Jammu University for the knowledge enhancement of research scholars and academicians who can avail facilities of the Amar Mahal library."
"Phoenix,Arizona - Retired bookstore owner Helen Schlie can see a higher purpose in selling her 1830 first-edition Book of Mormon one page at a time.
Schlie said she believes it will be more of a "missionary tool" since the framed pages - priced at $2,500 to $4,500 apiece - can be handed down from generation to generation."
"A rare handwritten copy of the Holy Quran transcribed in the Safavid era by female calligrapher Marjan al-Kateb Eslami is currently on display at the Astan'e Qods Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
The deputy curator of the museum said on Monday that the holy verses were transcribed with a unique style of calligraphy and illumination on 20 x 31.5 centimeter sheets of Samarkand paper."
"Rare books, engravings, paintings, film posters, crafts... And the list goes on. All under one roof - for the Capital’s art lovers to see and appreciate. As Neville Tuli, the force behind the exhibition puts it: “It’s 200 years of fine and popular arts, from Tipu Sultan to Amitabh Bachchan and more.” The 17-day exhibition which opened on August 17, courtesy Osian’s Archive and Library Collection, showcases India’s cultural heritage from the past three centuries."
"Mr. Robert Sabuda has greatly expanded the boundaries" of pop-up books," said Edward Hoyenski, an art historian and assistant curator of Rare Book and Texana Collections at the University of North Texas Libraries in Denton, Texas. "He's taken them to a new plateau. Our library has a collection going back to the 1800s, and you can chart the evolution. His are the most intricate, most far-reaching and most amazing…. As art pieces, they are amazing examples of sculptural effects. They are brilliant, interactive pieces."
" He spent 14 years gathering the largest private collection of writings by 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow brought together in the last 50 years. In 2001 he sold his his collection of more than 600 volumes, including inscribed first editions, letters, photographs and ephemera "for six figures" to Harvard's Houghton Library."
"Medieval manuscripts, texts, photographs, official records, audio tapes, music, rare indigenous scripts, suppressed and neglected transcripts from Africa, Asia, Russia, South America and Europe will all be preserved and digital copies made available to researchers in the British Library following the first awards from the Endangered Archives Programme sponsored by the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund. Grants totalling more than £600,000 have been awarded to twenty projects around the world."
"Baseer was travelled to the USA under International Visitor Programme in May-June, 1978 to study American Art in various art institutions, museums and galleries at Washington D. C, Chicago, Omaha, Santa-Fe, San-Francisco, Boston and New York. He was visited London under British Council Fellowship in 1987 to research on heritage of art of Bengal at India office library and records, British museum, Victoria and Albert museum.
When this writer came to this maestro's house, he was astonished to see the collections of rare books in various fields in world literature, art, journals, cuttings from papers, magazines and lots of valuable documents."
"As it celebrates its diamond jubilee, the Select Book Shop remains a treasure trove for a range of antiquarian books.
A passion for books led founder Kannim Bille Krishnamurthy Rao to travel high and low, sift through piles and piles of books and carefully add to his collection.
A lawyer by profession, Rao, also known as KBK, had the penchant for books since he was a student in Chennai."
"But the historic library's collections make the Boston Athenaeum a rare treat for history, art and literature lovers.
Athenaeums were precursors to today's public libraries. Established as private literary societies in the 18th century, people paid a membership fee for access to their books and papers.
Founded in 1807, the Boston athenaeum houses its impressive collection of books, paintings and sculpture in a five-story building that contains quiet reading rooms, a book conservation laboratory, a children's library and an art gallery."
"At the East Asian Library, Shively directed the conservation and cataloguing of the Mitsui Collection of early Japanese printed books and maps, the largest such collection outside Japan.
The Mutsui Collection is the most important holding and the core of the rare book collection at the East Asian Library, said Peter Zhou, the library's director.
"It's rare to find a man of his status with expertise on the academic front, and a devotion to the library work," Zhou said."
"Over the last several months, publishers have begun opposing the Google Print for Libraries program (http://print.google.com) and grumbling litigiously about copyright issues. After consulting with the publishing community, Google has responded to the opposition. It now offers what appear to be two carrots but what may actually turn out to be one carrot with a string attached and one carrot that could become a stick. While the publishers decide which to munch, Google will temporarily stop digitizing in-copyright books from its library partners and will concentrate, instead, on accelerating its public domain book digitization (defined as any book published before 1923 or ever published by the U.S. government). The moratorium will last until November. The new provisions offer all copyright holders the right to opt out of the program or, if they prefer to acquire saleable digital copies of their backlists via library-held copies, to get the same copies that the libraries get for their own publications."
"A first-edition copy of F Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby sat in a box of unsorted volumes at a US book shop for almost two months before it was noticed, and now the bookseller hopes it will bring more than $US50,000 ($A65,000).
"If you're a serious collector, you have to have this book," Baldwin's Book Barn operator Thomas Baldwin said."
FARMINGTON, Maine --"A collection of rare books and documents that helped shape Western civilization has arrived at the University of Maine at Farmington, where it will be placed on display for the first time in New England.
The collection includes rare editions of the Declaration of Independence and the Emancipation Proclamation, and a hand-copied edition of the Magna Carta dating to about 1350. Rare books include Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and Plato's "Republic."
"But now anyone with access to a computer can learn a great deal about "Roman de la Rose" by visiting the website rose.mse.jhu.edu. Launched by Johns Hopkins University as a prototype for testing ways to present medieval manuscripts in digital form, the site offers rare and valuable works in the collections of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Bodleian Library at Oxford University in England — providing opportunities for side-by-side analysis of texts and illustrations."
"LONDON - A rare handwritten copy of the Holy Quran transcribed in the Safavid era by female calligrapher Marjan al-Kateb Eslami is currently on display at the Astan-e Qods Razavi Museum in Mashhad.
According to MNA, the deputy curator of the museum said on Monday that the holy verses were transcribed with a unique style of calligraphy and illumination on 20 x 31.5 centimeter sheets of Samarkand paper."
"Many publishers say Amazon's benefits outweigh its pitfalls, but one gripe is widespread: Amazon has driven up sales of used books — great for thrifty readers, but bad, they say, for authors who depend on royalties.
"That's done more to hurt publishing, big and small, than anything, and readers don't think about it," says Fran Baker, a romance writer who runs her own publishing company, Delphi Books, in Lee's Summit, Mo., outside Kansas City.
Amazon, though, has seen used books spur sales of new books. "We've found customers that do buy used books are more likely to come back and buy (new books) from that publisher or that author," Greely says. "It's a way of introducing customers to new genres, new areas of interest."
"...It was researched by one of the special interns selected for the project, Mary Brazelton, a Harvard University student from Washington's Maryland suburbs. She found that one member of the play's audience that night -- T.D. Bancroft -- saved the fragment and later wrote that the dark stains were blood that dripped from President Lincoln as he was carried out of the theater after being shot by John Wilkes Booth.
Bancroft wrote about his treasure in a pamphlet issued to celebrate Lincoln's 100th birthday, preserved among the library's rare books. He donated the stained fragment to the Kansas Historical Society and took the precaution of copyrighting a photo of it."
"...But a set of complex codes in a vault at Washington University remains impervious to computer attack, no matter how sneaky. That's because the codes are in rare books, some of them over 500 years old. Together they form the country's finest collection about the history of code-making and - breaking.
Codes seem more natural in technological ages like ours than in the 1500s. But there has always been fascination about secrets."
"NEW YORK — Mary Ann Malkin, a noted rare-book collector and editor who for nearly two decades helped run AB Bookman’s Weekly, the well-thumbed bible of the rare- and secondhand-book business that inflamed and then often sated the acquisitive passions of book collectors around the world, died on Aug. 1 at her home in Manhattan. She was 92.
Malkin apparently died in her sleep, said Eric Holzenberg, the director of the Grolier Club of New York, the bibliophilic organization, which announced the death."
"Two portraits of Cumbrian poets Wordsworth and Coleridge are up for auction in one of the largest private collection sales ever to come onto the open market.
The portraits of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth are among 300 paintings of writers, artists, musicians and poets which belong to manuscript expert and collector Roy Davids.
The collection, which took 30 years to compile, will be sold by Bonhams on October 3 and is expected to attract the attention of museums. It was last on display at the British Library’s Millennium Exhibition in London in 2000."
"The cream of Irish literati dominate a unique art sale coming up this autumn.
Works featuring Nobel award-winning poet Seamus Heaney, Samuel Beckett, Oliver Goldsmith, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde and WB Yeats will come under the hammer at a Bonhams sale in October.
The Roy Davids portrait collection of writers, artists and musicians is the most extensive private collection of historical portraits to come to auction in recent years."
"MANHATTAN, Kan. - Dr. Karl Menninger's taste in books ranged from the serious to the speculative, from religion in 18th-century England to the Rat Pack of 1960s Las Vegas.
And that's just the first 17 boxes.
"This is not a library of an obsessive collector of books, but a library of someone who read and was interested in knowledge," said Roger Adams, the rare books librarian at Kansas State University. "It's really obvious when you start looking at these books, he had eclectic interests - ranging from world religions to criminology and of course the obvious, his interest in psychiatry."
"A children’s literature centre will show off rare Harry Potter memorabilia when it opens to the public later this month, it announced today.
Author JK Rowling has lent the new Seven Stories centre in Newcastle upon Tyne a hand-written draft of chapter six of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone which is titled The Journey from Platform Nine and Three Quarters."
"Together with his brother Kiril Drenikov, Ivan Drenikov established the Balkan Studies Institute of Brussels in 1978. He is also the founder and director of the institute for ancient and rare books, manuscripts and maps at Venezuela's National Library."
""Jazz in Los Angeles: Photos From the Music Library Special Collections," featuring a selection of images taken by Howard Morehead and Mark Weber, is on view in the lobby of the Charles E. Young Research Library at UCLA through Sept. 30.
Born in 1926 in Topeka, Kan., Howard Morehead trained as a pilot for the Air Corps in the Tuskegee Airmen. After leaving the service in 1946, he moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA, then transferred to Los Angeles City College, where he earned a degree in photography. He also studied journalism at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles) and the University of Southern California, and motion picture photography at UCLA."
"Some of these stories are told in "The Cultures and History of the Americas," an exhibit at the Library of Congress that has just been extended until Sept 23. The show features 50 highlights from the 4,000 rare books, maps, documents, paintings, prints and artifacts of the Jay I. Kislak Collection recently donated to the Library of Congress.
The collection focuses on the early Americas from the time of the indigenous peoples of Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean through the period of European contact, exploration and settlement. Since it broadens the focus of "American history" from just the Anglo-Saxon heritage, it will engage the growing Hispanic population of the United States as well as provide a basis for new scholarship."
"It also contains an early and rather different draft of Dr. Watson's book, then called "Honest Jim," that Harvard University Press found too scandalous to publish, after it received a deluge of criticism from Dr. Crick and other leading scientists.
The collection was financed by Mr. Norman, a rare-book dealer in Novato, Calif., and chosen by Mr. Seckel, a cognitive scientist in Pasadena, Calif., who visited researchers and offered to buy their papers."
"A visit to "What's Cooking in Delaware," the new exhibition at the Willingtown Square Gallery at 505 Market St., showcases everything from the history of grocery stores to restaurants in the state from roughly 1750 to 1998.
The exhibition, housed in four glass cases inside the Historical Society of Delaware's Research Library, is more of an appetizer portion of nostalgic history rather than a comprehensive look at Delaware's culinary past."
"KOLKATA: A 1599 Latin Bible priced at Rs 1 lakh, a 1736 bibliography of the Mughal period with biographical accounts at Rs 2 lakh, 17th century Hebrew books pegged at Rs 50,000-75,000, Raj travelogues placed at Rs 10,000-25,000 and the 1796 publication on Warren Hastings’s trial hovering at Rs 75,000. The Indian old books market is not only showing signs of picking up within the country, but is also is creating a visible impact in the overseas markets.
“While there are book collectors growing across regions like Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi and Rajasthan, the excitement around old books is actually building up internationally too. Exports of old books are being routed to the US, the UK, Germany, France, Japan, Switzerland, Itlay and Thailand in Southeast Asia,” book market sources told ET."
"German online bookstore Buch.de has announced it saw a sharp jump in sales and earnings in the first half of 2005.
Book sales rose 19 per cent on the same period last year to €20.4m, the company reported.
The company's earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) had risen to €351,000, up from €19,000 last year."
"BOISE - The Idaho Center for the Book, which is housed on the Boise State University campus, is looking for Idaho artists' submissions for its biennial touring books exhibit, Booker's Dozen. The center will accept donations until Aug. 31."
"Despite tall promises made by the then Defence Minister, Mr George Fernandes, the SGPC, even after a lapse of two decades, has not received the invaluable manuscripts and books taken from the Sikh Reference Library by the army. These books and manuscripts were taken in gunny bags and big trunks by the army to an unknown place after Operation Blue Star.
Though the SGPC had raised the issue with President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam during his visit to the Golden Temple, the issue still remains unresolved, much to the chagrin of Panthic organisations."
"After 70 years, so is Herb Bell's place in Palo Alto -- Bell's Books -- a landmark shop which right from the start was a place where books of quality, mostly old but some new, could be found, eclectic reading advice given and like-minded friends made.
Tonight, Herb Bell's widow, Valeria, and his daughter, Faith, are putting on an unabashed celebration of Bell's many years with a jazz band, lots of local food and, as the invitation postcard says, "150,000 books!''
State Sen. Joe Simitian, D-Palo Alto, will be there to present Bell's with the 2005 Small Business of the Year award for his 13-city district."
"Pulitzer Prize winner Larry McMurtry, the author of "Lonesome Dove" and "Terms of Endearment" announced in February that he would padlock his Booked Up, Inc. shop in his hometown of Archer City.
He said then that he needed a break from a business that had been losing customers.
But McMurtry now says that the shop's outlook has improved after staff cuts and an upturn in business."
"Searching for rare titles is a "treasure hunt" for book collectors. For years, they peered deep into the shelves and bargain bins of used book stores. They ran their fingers along old bindings, relishing the possibility of hidden "gems." The search often proved more exciting than the actual book.
However, those days are largely gone. Today, rare finds often don't go on the shelves but are sold online. Some dealers have shut their stores and switched to Internet sales only. The entire used book world has changed."
"The deportation of the Chechens in 1944 did enormous damage to Chechen literature. Rare books and manuscripts were destroyed and burned. Unique works by the children of this long-suffering people may be found in archives and private libraries in neighboring republics."
"Government has honoured a group of Malian students who have completed training in South Africa, in conserving the historical Timbuktu Manuscripts.
The five learners underwent three years' training since 2003, in preventive conservation that included the cleaning of the Manuscripts; basic conservation repairs on damaged manuscripts as well as paper conservation, rare book designs, leather repair and exhibition mounting, among others."
"NEW YORK — On a quiet, sunny Sunday morning, when many Christians are in church, visitors trickle into the new Museum of Biblical Art — called MOBIA for short — on the corner of Broadway and 61st Street, not far from Lincoln Center in New York.
The silence lends an air of sanctity to the second-floor gallery, contrasting with a lighthearted and eclectic exhibit of religious folk art from the American South."
""The Bookman's Promise" is part historical fiction, part book collector arcana, part cop thriller and part romance. It is the newest addition to the series featuring former Denver cop turned rare bookseller Cliff Janeway and his love of books, book collecting, nosing out mysterious circumstances surrounding histories of books and spouting pithy quotes, such as: "In those early Internet years, I posted an epigram over my desk, 'A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.' That was written two centuries ago by a German wit named Lichtenberg, but I think the same thing applies today to a computer screen."
"CAMBRIDGE, MA.--This August, the Harvard University Art Museums will present Degas at Harvard, an exhibition examining Harvard University's distinguished holdings by Edgar Degas-one of the most important collections of the artist's work in the United States. The exhibition will draw together more than 60 works by Degas from the collection of the Fogg Art Museum, together with promised gifts to the Fogg, as well as works from The Houghton Library at Harvard and Harvard's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C. Organized by the Fogg Art Museum, the exhibition encompasses drawings, paintings, prints, sculpture, and photographs, and will be on view at Harvard's Arthur M. Sackler Museum through November 27, 2005."
ATLANTA, GA - "Surprisingly, they are some of the most important and most unique libraries in the country," Dr. Jay Hakes explained. "They are Presidential Libraries."
Dr. Hakes is the Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, one of eleven Presidential Libraries operated by the National Archives and Records Administration and the only Presidential Library in the Southeast."
"The Civil Rights movement, which caught fire back in 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina, at the Woolworth's Restaurant, is now having its resources put online by UNCG's Jackson Library.
The library recently recieved a grant of $10,000 by the Greensboro Community Foundation and has begun the process of making all the transcripts from interviews, information, pictures and documents available online for the public."
"The Immanuel Velikovsky Papers now are available for research use in the Princeton University Library's manuscripts division in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. They were donated by Mr. Velikovsky's daughter, Princeton Township resident Ruth Sharon.
Mr. Velikovsky earned a medical degree from the University of Moscow in 1921 and lived in the '20s and '30s with his family in Palestine, where he pursued a specialization in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy. He moved to the United States in 1939 and began research into the history of Egypt, Greece and the Jewish past.
He is best known as the author of a number of controversial books, primarily arguing that ancient myths, legends and accounts of catastrophic events related in the Bible and other texts have a basis in fact."
"Last year, the firm decided to base its second UK distribution centre in Scotland with the creation of 300 jobs, at a distribution facility on the outskirts of Gourock in Inverclyde. The plant is based in a building owned by economic development agency Scottish Enterprise and extends to some 300,000 square feet.
The online veteran can also boast a software development centre in South Queensferry. The local operation works on new features for Amazon's six websites. It is the first to be set up by Amazon outside the United States, and will employ 40 computer scientists and software engineers by 2006."
"Bill Goring, who is also a seller of used and antiquarian books, has his retail shop, Nutmeg Books, behind his house. His library is a simple affair: just a room in his rambling house that's packed to the rafters.
"When we bought this house, we designated this room the library," he said, leading a tour past shelves containing everything from Karl Marx to a volume titled Glimpses of the Supernatural."
"A rare 400-year-old medical book has been found beneath the floorboards of a lawyer's home in Edinburgh.
The illustrated English-language copy of the Ten Books of Surgery is one of only 22 in known existence.
The 17th century surgical work, written by Frenchman Ambrose Paré, may have been left beneath the floor of the loft during building work in the late 1950s."
"Thousands of tiny, unwanted visitors live on the shelves of Montgomery's main library, and they have claimed the lives of 15 rare books.
Mold spores are growing on the spines of hundreds of bound magazines in the basement. Water damage also is evident on the floor and shelves housing rare books on the second floor."
"ASHEVILLE — Still searching for that book you remember reading in childhood? What about that signed first U.K. edition of “Harry Potter,” worth $10,000? Or, do you simply want to pick up a 50-cent paperback by John Grisham to pack for your next beach trip?
Brendan Sherar makes book browsing a breeze at Biblio.com.
Since he launched his Internet business, Sherar has seen his site mushroom into the world’s third largest Web site for used, rare and out-of-print books. Biblio lets online shoppers browse through 22 million titles online from 3,000 independent booksellers in 24 countries."
"CHARLOTTESVILLE Leaf through the 11 editions of the Boy Scout Handbook -- the first was published in 1911 -- and you'll see a mirror of the country frozen in time.
The oldest editions taught Scouts how to build a log cabin and stop a runaway horse, about wireless telegraphy and chivalry -- skills and virtues that still sound good to me today."
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