"Google, for its part, says the project benefits authors and publishers by raising awareness of their books - and including links to places to buy them. Users can see only small portions of copyrighted books - much like the distilled information about a book contained on a library file card, the company says. Such minimal use complies with so-called "fair use" laws, it says."
""A beautiful hand-bound book is part skill and part art," says Mark Wessel, co-owner of Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers, where Claudia Cohen 's work is on display. "It's fine for Claudia to say she's not an artist. But it can't be lost that the reason for her success is her sense of design and aesthetic. She may be a bookbinder first, but there's a lot of artistry involved."
"The North Carolina State Libraries celebrated the kick-off of their $10 million capital campaign with the Carousel of Knowledge Thursday in the Brickyard. A Carousel was set up along with basketball hoops to host contests with the NCSU basketball teams and a concession area with free food."
"After inspiring a steady stream of books and movies for decades, a wave of exhibits, conferences and even a jazz composition set to his work have emerged in recent months to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his lifelong labor -- a collection of poems called "Leaves of Grass."
Among them is an exhibit at the New York Public Library featuring faded photographs, rare manuscripts and even a lock of Whitman's golden-brown hair. Titled "I am With You: Walt Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass' (1855-2005)" the exhibit opened earlier this month and runs through the beginning of January."
" am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. I give you joy of your free & brave thought.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote those words in a letter to Whitman barely two weeks after the book was published in July 1855. He appeared, by most accounts, to be the only one who liked the book."
"Washington -- Many of the most iconic 19th-century images of American Indian peoples are the work of renowned photographer Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), whose extensive documentation of indigenous tribal life in the United States and Canada produced compelling pictures that continue to shape popular perceptions about the Western frontier."
"Medieval manuscripts usually live tucked away in the world's libraries, and are seldom seen in public, leaving medieval art lovers with expensive facsimile editions as a disappointing substitute. But in the Dutch town of Nijmegen, 60 km southeast of Utrecht, there's a rare opportunity to see the real thing.
For the first time since the 15th century, brothers Herman, Paul and Jean Limbourg's brilliant and colorful miniature illuminations will be shown together at the Valkhof Museum in "The Limbourg Brothers, Nijmegen Masters at the French Court (1400-1416)" until Nov. 20."
" Event Celebrates 70th Anniversary of The New York Times Best-Seller List; Net Proceeds to Benefit New York Public Libraries and the Fund for Public Schools
On Sunday, Oct. 2, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., thousands of New Yorkers are expected to converge on Bryant Park for The Great Read in the Park, a momentous book and author event and a spectacular kickoff in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the New York Times best-seller list."
"The documents had been in the private collection of the descendants of Robert Barclay, New Jersey's first royal governor, for more than 300 years until they were purchased about 10 years ago by Jay T. Snider, a wealthy Philadelphia businessman and former president of hockey's Philadelphia Flyers. Snider, in turn, had them auctioned by Christie's.
"It is great, absolutely great that we got them," said Joseph J. Felcone of Princeton, a prominent rare-book and manuscript dealer who alerted the state to the auction and did the bidding at Christie's. "What is important is what would have happened if we had not gotten them. It would have been just unthinkable if individual collectors had bought and separated them."
Bahrain: "An international exhibition showcasing some of the finest mediaeval Quran manuscripts is opening at Beit Al Quran, Manama, today.
The Spirit Illuminated - An International Exhibition of the Quran manuscripts will be opened by Deputy Prime Minister and Islamic Affairs Minister Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalid Al Khalifa.
It presents 12 double-page prints based on selected openings from the finest mediaeval Quran manuscripts in Cairo's Dar Al Kutub, which is Egypt's national library and archive.
"Tony Haverstick, who taught philosophy at Syracuse University in the 1960s, began his love affair with the printed word by becoming a rare book dealer.
Then, one day in his late 20s, he sat in on a lecture in Philadelphia by Fritz Eberhardt, who the Du Ponts had brought to America to do work for themselves after World War II.
Haverstick was enthralled. He went to work for Eberhardt, helping him to restore old books and watching him design new book covers that honored the past.
In 1970, he set up shop himself and eventually located at 28 N. Water St. Afterward, he found out a Lancaster bookbinder, Charles Kraus, had lived there in the mid 1800s."
Buffalo, New York: "It is known as the map that changed the world, William Smith's 1815 charting of Great Britain's underside.
The London Geological Society keeps its rare copy behind blue velvet curtains, which are swept open three times a week for visitors.
The Buffalo library keeps its copy folded in a box. At least it did.
The map recently became the centerpiece of the first of a series of exhibitions meant to showcase the library's 30,000-title Rare Book Collection, its multimillion-dollar pride and joy."
"In Trinity College Library, the ninth century Book of Kells has been exhibited seven days a week since 1992, with full-color, wall-size enlargements of some pages.
Someone looking over my shoulder at the great manuscript murmured that it used to be kept "where you could see it close to." That had been in the college's Long Room, the study hall used by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), Thomas Moore (1779-1852) and Oliver St. John Gogarty (1878-1957), among other luminaries."
"The other day, Meredith Blum and Gordon Moore went to Penn Station to collect twenty-four boxes of books from the Lost Property Unit of New York City Transit. The books had been left on trains and buses and in subway stations. Blum and Moore are employees of the Housing Works Bookstore Café, on Crosby Street, which sells donated books and music."
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"Humanities Two is paltry, however, compared to where the real action is: Rare Books and Music, Oriental and India Office Collections, and Manuscripts. One is only allowed to use a pencil in these hallowed rooms, which tends to weed out, as Eliane Glaser puts it, "the normal people. You see a lot of strange behaviour in Rare Books. I remember a time when a young man's mobile phone went off and all these grey-haired academics rose up as one and closed in on the poor guy. I really thought they were going to lynch him."
"Antiquarian bookseller Kenneth Gloss, proprietor of the nationally known Brattle Book Shop in Boston, likens his job to a treasure hunt.
Selling books is only half of a bookman's trade, he says. The other half - scouting - is where much of the excitement and challenge lies."
"The University of Buffalo Libraries are about to offer the public an opportunity to see some of the greatest treasures in its magnificent Rare Books Collection, an assemblage of priceless books and other material dating back to the 15th century.
"Rare Books: An Exhibition," curated by John Edens, assistant director of the libraries for technical services and interim director of the Archives, will be held in the Special Collections Research Room."
"BERKELEY – The University of California, Berkeley, has obtained a rare Hebrew Bible that has served as the foundation for almost all Bibles published since its own printing in the early 1500s.
Paul Hamburg, librarian for UC Berkeley's Judaica collections, said there are likely only a dozen sets left in the world of the four-volume Second Biblia Rabbinica, including half a dozen or so in private ownership."
"By using modern technologies many scholars are making knowledge of Buddhism available for the general public and youngsters. Many Buddhist scholars in Dharamshala town are digitalizing rare Buddhist manuscripts to preserve them and give them a virtual home on the Internet.
Funded by the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM), the Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, has taken on the task of locating, collecting and cataloguing all available Tibetan manuscripts in and around the Himachal Pradesh."
"Also on the cards is a digitised archive which will preserve the 1000-plus rare books and manuscripts with the library.
‘‘Among the rare documents we have is a letter from Jagadish Chandra Bose, seeking Rs 2000 for his laboratory. Most of the documents are brittle and need to be digitised immediately. We will have to engage trained staff and maybe hire a professional agency to get the new system in place,’’ said Prof Sengupta."
"The original handwritten manuscript of what became Alice in Wonderland has been put online using software to virtually turn the pages.
Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll, is the latest 3D addition to the British Library's Turning the Pages collection of books."
"The 2nd Lord Wardington, who has died aged 81, was a leading English bibliophile with a collection of 700 volumes, containing some 60,000 maps produced between the 15th century and the present day.
He inherited from his father and grandfather the nucleus of the library, which was housed at Wardington Manor, Oxfordshire, in a magnificent room with a high beamed ceiling and walls gleaming with handsome bindings; but he also greatly enriched the collection with his own acquisitions and the many volumes he had specially bound by leading modern craftsmen."
"Terry Belanger, a history and engineering professor and honorary curator of the Special Collections Library, was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship yesterday.
The award grants five-year fellowships to those who exhibit "exceptional merit and promise of continued and enhanced creative work" and includes a $500,000 stipend, according to the MacArthur Foundation."
"Even with its gothic architecture, Sterling Memorial Library might seem a lot younger than its years.
From September to April, the University will celebrate the 75th anniversary of what many call "the heart of the University." Festivities have been planned for the library's anniversary, including special exhibits and lectures by authors David McCullough '55 and Jamaica Kincaid."
Rare Book School "A professor dedicated to revealing “the magic” of the book as an art form will receive a half-million dollars for his work.
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today that Terry Belanger, a University of Virginia professor and honorary curator of Special Collections, is one of 25 MacArthur Fellows for 2005. Each fellow receives a $500,000 grant."
University of Hawaii: "The thread of flood, loss and recovery, among other connections, has gone into the creation of the gallery's ambitious new exhibition, "Making Connections: Treasures from the University of Hawaii Library," which Klobe describes, with some relief, as a "phoenix rising."
"MOSCOW, Russia – This week, the Library of the Moscow Jewish Community Center hosted the lecture "Rare and Valuable Books in the Moscow JCC Library". Held as part of the program for the 'Jewish History Lovers' Club, the lecture was delivered by the club's head, Professor Alexander Lakshin."
"Get ready for the "Bookstore Mob Project." At 2 p.m. Eastern Time (11 a.m. Pacific) on Saturday, October 1, independent bookstores across the U.S. will be the setting of a boisterous celebration to show support for locally owned and operated booksellers."
"Buffalo, New York - It is known as the map that changed the world, William Smith's 1815 charting of Great Britain's underside.
The London Geological Society keeps its rare copy behind blue velvet curtains, which are swept open three times a week for visitors.
The Buffalo library keeps its copy folded up in a box. At least it did.
This week, the map became the centerpiece of the first of a series of exhibitions meant to showcase the library's 30,000-title Rare Book Collection, its multimillion-dollar pride and joy."
"Though he will turn 200 this year, the words of Alexis de Tocqueville are still read and applied by modern day politicos, intellectuals and students.
In celebration of the philosopher's birthday, Yale's extensive collection of his manuscripts is now on display at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The exhibition, formally titled "Alexis de Tocqueville, Gustave de Beaumont, and the Challenge of Democracy," went on display two weeks ago in preparation for the upcoming international Alexis de Tocqueville conference commemorating the bicentennial of his birth at the end of the month."
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"The Grolier Club, founded in 1884, is America’s oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts of the graphic arts. Housed in a smart brownstone on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the club is playing host to a moving reunion of manuscripts and materials belonging to Plath and Hughes."
"Tiruchirapalli, Sept 14: To preserve rare and old books, the National Library at Kolkota was utilising the latest 'Mark II' technology to digitise the works in a phased manner, the institute director, Dr Sudendhu Mandal said today.
Digitisation of over 15,000 books, comprising seven lakh pages, published before the year 1900 had been completed last year. 'We may accomplish about 10 lakh pages this year," he told PTI."
"The Moveable Books Society, a group of international book collectors, brings its unique array of pop-up books to Columbia College this week in a showcase entitled "Stand and Deliver: Engineering Sculpture into Book Format." Originating in Connecticut, the traveling exhibit intends to challenge preconceived notions of what a book must look like, with pieces taking various shapes, such as a birthday cake, a ukulele and an iron."
"Following the spirit of the day, I had to make a trip to the Cactus Book Store which specializes in "Texana." Old county historical association books, privately printed memoirs, folklore collections, books of newspaper column collections and other source material fill the little shop. I spent 30 minutes browsing, blew $50 on three books and wish I had the money to spend $1,000."
"The Bancroft Library, thought of by many as a repository of materials relating primarily to Western Americana, is home to a surprising range of rare and valuable resources, including papyrus fragments dating back to 300 B.C., medieval manuscripts, several hundred texts from the 15th century, works from the Renaissance, Shakespeare folios, the Mark Twain Papers, and much more. This summer, after more than a year of planning, Bancroft staff began moving the collections to temporary quarters while their building undergoes a general upgrade and seismic renovation, scheduled for completion in 2007. The move has been as extensively choreographed as a ballet."
"Writings by well-known poets, artists’ eye-catching illustrations, the expressive work of calligraphers and the ancient art of paper-makers come together in “How the Ink Feels: A Traveling Exhibit of Letterpress Broadsides by Distinguished Artists and Writers,” an exhibit currently touring Alaska. The first stop in this six-city tour is the gallery of Homer Council on the Arts."
University of Hawaii: "Less than a year after Manoa's Halloween flood ripped through Hamilton Library, treasures from the collection are now on display at an unusual exhibit titled "Making Connections."
The clean-up from the flooding was a daunting task. But little by little, piece by piece, the work continued. Much of the detail work was done on the fifth floor of Hamilton Library on the UH Manoa campus. Now, nearly 400 treasures, many of them recovered from the flood-ravaged lower floors, have been prepared for display at the UH Art Gallery."
"American volunteers with an Israeli charity said on Monday that they were trying to rescue an ancient Torah scroll in a New Orleans synagogue flooded by Hurricane Katrina.
"We are trying to get a helicopter so we can have an aerial view of the place, to figure out what's more suitable to get access," said Rabbi Isaac Leider, from Zaka, an Israeli rescue and recovery group."
"Representatives of the Bosnian community said they will produce 613 copies of the ancient book, which is the guidebook used during the Passover Seder meal, and will put them on sale in time for next year’s Passover celebrations at a price of around 1,000 euros.
The original manuscript is held at the Sarajevo National Museum where it is preserved using climate control conditions."
"Daniel Craig, who recently screentested for the James Bond role, was spotted on August 5th in London's Cecil Court, a well-known enclave of antiquarian books, inquiring about a first edition of Ian Fleming's "Casino Royale."
The bookseller obviously knew who he was talking to and quoted him £25,000 ($46,000) for a mint-condition copy of the first James Bond novel, which Sony and producers Barbara Broccoli and Michael Wilson are prepping for the bigscreen under helmer Martin Campbell."
"Unapologetic book addicts will delight in Elinor Loredan, the book collector who claims leaving a book open face-down breaks its neck, or Mortimer Folchart, who repeatedly insists he is not the robber-hero famed in song and story people think he is, but merely a bookbinder. Of course Mo, Meggie's father, is no mere bookbinder -- or rather, there is nothing mere about being a bookbinder, a reader or a book lover in Cornelia Funke's story."
"A new exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" with a look at rare manuscripts and other materials that show Whitman's creative process as well as the enduring legacy of his work.
"I Am With You: Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass (1855-2005)" opens today in the New York Public Library's Humanities and Social Sciences Library and runs through Jan. 8."
"The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library currently holds the collection, which were loaned to Yale for safekeeping in 1952 by the Pequot Library of Southport, Conn. But some of Pequot's current trustees have asked the University to return the documents, and the suburban library has alleged in a court application that Yale officials threatened to terminate protection of the documents unless Pequot ceded ownership of the collection to the University."
"Ken Sanders owns more than 200 locally produced concert posters. Some, like his Grateful Dead poster, are autographed by band members. He likes to reminisce about the Rolling Stones coming to Lagoon in 1966. About the Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix coming to Salt Lake City. About the 1969 Grateful Dead SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) Ball. He likes to talk about the Terrace and the Fairground Coliseum and about the artists who designed the posters for all these groups."
"The Chicago Botanic Garden has received a $170,614 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., to catalog its rare book library. The two-year grant will support a rare book cataloger and assistant. Leora Siegel, manager of the Chicago Botanic Garden Library, estimates about 3,500 titles will be cataloged."
"Louisiana State Librarian Rebecca Hamilton writes: “The New Orleans City Archives at the Main Library are not underwater and are dry. The camera took pictures at a weird angle and made it look to staff like it was underwater but they are not. A company called Munter’s has been hired by the library to remove them and get them out of New Orleans. They are safe. Someone broke some windows and was living in the library but they did not hurt anything. I am in tears I am so happy. NOPL’s Geri Harris thought all was lost and we are all relieved to know that so much of Louisiana’s history has been spared.”"
"A rare 15th -century Hebrew Bible, held by Yeshiva University’s Mendel Gottesman Library, will be on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City from September 20, 2005-January 3, 2006 as part of its “Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437” exhibition. Valued at $3 million, the 1489 Bible is a Hebrew manuscript written and dated in the city of Prague. The late Ludwig Jesselson, former chairman of the YU Board of Trustees, together with his wife, Erica, arranged for the Bible to be presented to Yeshiva University (YU). Mrs. Jesselson is chair of Yeshiva University Museum Board of Directors. The Jesselson family is well known for its philanthropy and communal leadership, and family members are avid collectors of Judaica."
"Tom Baldwin of Baldwin's Book Barn near West Chester, Pa., was anticipating fierce bidding that could have netted up to $100,000 for a first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby."
But more people gathered to watch than to bid. Just one person, a California book collector, offered Baldwin the minimum $25,000 bid for the book, in the last minute of bidding. But Baldwin had set a "reserve bid" of more than double that amount, allowing him to reject anything lower."
"People here adore their largest local bookstore, Powell's City of Books, which for 34 years has been a cornerstone of Southwest 10th Avenue and Burnside Street, and -- not to put too fine a point on the matter -- even Portland itself.
There is a lot to love. The attic-y smell of the stacks, the 4 million volumes, the towering shelves that close you in and make you feel like you are reading in your own private den. Its very ethos, like Portland, that hippie aunt of West Coast cities, stands out in clear defiance of corporate sterility."
John Connolly: "Feted as one of Britain's most admired comic writers, it wasn't until 1988, when business began to slow at his antiquarian bookshop, that he finally faced up to his calling as a novelist.
Now silver haired, jolly and just eccentric enough to be respectable, it is almost impossible to reconcile him with his latest book - a work that is at times uncomfortably dark and violent."
"“If you’re going to be a professional researcher in a field you need to look at primary sources,” Devaney said. “Many scholarly articles are people’s interpretation of a primary resource.”
Desmet said it doesn’t matter which medium students use as long as they know how to properly research."
"As well as the museum, the building also houses a library containing rare manuscripts and books .
Boccaccio was the third of three great writers who appeared on the Italian scene during the late 13th and early 14th century and carried Italian literature to unprecedented heights. The other two were Dante and Petrarch ."
"Twenty-four original manuscripts make up “The Louisiana Purchase,” along with seven documents that are not original. They include written documents announcing and specifying the boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase, which in the early 19th century transferred more than 800,000 square miles of land from France to the United States and in turn doubled the size of the United States.
Subsequent themes are Napoleon, the Wright Brothers and the Bible. The year 2007 already has been assigned an exhibit that will display carved sandstones and other artifacts from ancient Egypt.
Karpeles, a Santa Barbara, Calif., native who opened his first museum in his hometown 22 years ago, settled on Shreveport to round out the locations of his eight other museums, found around the country in smaller cities where he believes the manuscripts would make a large splash as a cultural offering.
The Karpeles collection is the largest private holding of important original manuscripts and documents and includes the original draft of the Bill of Rights, writings by Einstein on his theory of relativity and a portion of the original manuscript of the dictionary created by Noah Webster."
"--China’s oldest handwritten copy of the Qur’an, threatened by erosion and decay, will be better protected after a 440,000 yuan (US$ 54,300) grant aimed at preserving the ancient manuscript, China’s Qinghai provincial authorities revealed on Thursday.
The fund, earmarked by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, will be used to repair and protect the sacred Islamic texts, said Ma Weimin, deputy director of the Qinghai Bureau of Cultural Relics. "For example, (the money will be used) to make a replica of the existing Qur’an for public display, and to use vacuum treatment to store the original book."
"A SIX million pound extension to Cambridge University Library's storage facilities will be up and running this autumn.
The penultimate phase of the library's development programme - an extension to the rear of the building - will enable the university's extensive archives, going back to 1266, to be housed for the first time in ideal conditions, along with the scientific and astronomical records of the Royal Greenwich Observatory and many of the library's rare book collections."
"Denver bookstore owner and ex-cop Cliff Janeway is back trying to solve another murder mystery — this one taking him to the small town of Paradise, high in the Rockies.
Murder victim Bobby Marshall is a book collector who has several valuable signed copies in an otherwise ordinary collection. Bobby was also a friend of Janeway’s girlfriend Erin D’Angelo, an attorney. The kicker is that the murder suspect, Bobby’s wife, Laura, was also a friend and wants Erin to defend her."
"It's a great book city,'' says Doug Price of the West Side Book Shop, which has 30 years under its belt selling used, rare and out-of-print books.
For students looking for a good deal or simply curious, there's world of surprises out there beyond bookstore giants like Borders and Barnes & Noble. And it's easy to explore: Many independent bookstores, with everything from brand-new commentary on our times to murder mysteries to used and antique titles, are sprinkled around campus and the Main Street area. What follows are a few highlights. We're also providing a more extensive list of independent bookstores in and around Ann Arbor."
"What to do with a "George Gershwin Song Book," a limited edition volume published in 1932 by Simon and Schuster?
Between its covers are 18 Gershwin songs. Accompanying each is a lighthearted cartoon by the talented Russian emigre artist Constantine Alajalov.
A single page at the front of the book contains a three-word autograph: "Regards, George Gershwin."
"Today, The Folio Society, Britain's leading publisher of fine books, launches foliobooks (www.foliobooks.net). For the first time, you can buy beautiful, illustrated, hardback books which, until now, have only been available to members.
The site launches with a wide range of titles, embracing humour, poetry, travel, art, music, myths and fairy tales, biography and autobiography, children's books and fiction. It will generate a passion, not only for good books, but for the best in illustration and production. 'Books do furnish a room,' declared Revd Sydney Smith, and they should. Foliobooks aims to make Britons proud of what their book collections look like, as well as what is inside them."
"PHILADELPHIA: This fall, a new exhibition at the Rosenbach will highlight a large group of drawings by the Renaissance painter and architect Girolamo da Carpi (1501-1556). His intricate depictions of antiquities such as the Roman Colosseum, or of the art of his time, such as Raphael's frescoes at the Vatican, are a sumptuous guidebook to the art treasures of 16th-century Italy. The exhibition opens to the public Sept. 8 and will be on display through Dec. 4, 2005.
Drawn Together: Two Albums of Renaissance Drawings by Girolamo da Carpi, the first ever exhibition on this topic, features 29 drawings from the collections of the Rosenbach and the British Museum in London. The exhibition is also accompanied by a bilingual catalogue with 45 full-color entries and new research on the artist that will help to give Girolamo the reputation he has long deserved. Dr. Gudrun Dauner, an expert on Italian Renaissance drawings, has written the catalogue and serves as guest curator of the exhibition."
"A West Chester book dealer has begun an online auction of what he said is a rare first edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
Single copies, depending on a book's condition, can sell for $1,250 to $4,950. But book dealer Thomas Baldwin thinks his edition could fetch far more. He has started the bidding at $25,000.
Baldwin's 210-page copy is far from mint condition, but it has what he said is the original dust jacket, which to some collectors can be more valuable than the book. Baldwin started an online auction on eBay late Wednesday and is asking for an opening bid of $25,000."
"One of the Bay Area’s best known independent retail bookstores abruptly closed its doors Wednesday morning, shocking employees and customers.
Kepler’s Bookstore, at 1010 El Camino Real in Menlo Park, held a company meeting 9 a.m. yesterday to tell employees it would not open its doors. After 50 years in business, the store appears to be giving up its pricey location next to Cafe Barrone after years of increased competition with online book retailers."
"If the Council for Cultural Affairs has its way, the public library will soon become a lifelong center of culture and learning in townships and villages.
In a recent interview, CCA head Chen Chi-nan (陳其南) said that township libraries were at the bottom of the multi-tiered public library system and needed to reinvent themselves or become obsolete."
"HOSPET: Department of Manuscriptology, Kannada University, Hampi, in association with National Mission for Manuscripts, New Delhi and Karnataka Writers’ and Artists’ Association, Bidar is organising a manuscripts training and awareness camp from August 31 to September 3 in Bidar."
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