"The Pre-Raphaelites, a group of artists and poets from the mid-19th century who were dedicated to restoring early Renaissance ideals and methods and to observing and portraying nature, included such well-known artists and writers as Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, William Morris and Oscar Wilde."

"Carleton’s special collections houses many of these masters’ works, from miniscule gift books to larger, torso-sized books, such as the Kelmscott Chaucer, an illustrated and extraordinarily beautiful version of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales."

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"This is one of the greatest shopping cities in the world, the gateway between Europe and Asia, where you can buy a fur hat from a former Soviet soldier, an emerald direct from the mines of Afghanistan, or unearth a dainty antique armoire in a backstreet junk shop. There are no less than a dozen markets to entice shoppers of all kinds, from Byzantine scholars looking for rare books to stout headscarved housewives in search of a new plastic fly-swatter."

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"A new online Performing Arts Encyclopedia has been developed to serve as a centralized guide for users interested in exploring the performing arts. The encyclopedia focuses on music, motion picture, broadcasting, recorded sound, manuscript, rare book and other nonbook collections."

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"'The Bibliophile is my sanctuary,'she wrote to me in an email. 'I’ve met some dear, longlasting friends there such as Epictetus, Dorothy Parker, Colette, Ogden Nash, E.B. White and James Thurber – not to mention Uwe and Susan. I’ve replenished my spirit with C.S. Lewis, and refreshed my memories of my solo travels to Egypt with Naguib Mahfouz’ novels. S.J. Perelman reminds me to lighten up, and the mystery section offers stress relief in many modes./"

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" The pick of the literati came from all over the world – the US, the UK, Germany, Norway, Mexico, Japan, China, France, Canada, Nigeria, Cameroun, Cote d’ Ivoire, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Ghana, Togo, Benin, South Africa, Mali, Senegal, Zimbabwe, the Caribbean and beyond to brainstorm on African literature. They were either students of African literature, scholars, writers and journalists or culture afficionados. Traces of nostalgic afterglow trailed the ending."

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"Other Mobilians knew him through the Mobile Opera, the Mobile Symphony, his involvement in restoring more than 30 homes in the city's Oakleigh Historic Garden District, his founding of a medical museum, and his relationships with his alma mater, Tulane University, and with Spring Hill College, where he and his wife, Charlotte, funded the Eichold Fine Arts Center and Rare Book Room."

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"In the ambience created by an offering of Gurbani at Government Museum Auditorium this morning, Sikh scholars Dr Man Singh Nirankari and Dr Madanjit Kaur, donated handwritten manuscripts compiled by Sikh Gurus and their followers. Both the scholars have parted with treasures of a lifetime so that the Word of the Gurus can bless every home. After making the knowledge available, they have also prepared a descriptive catalogue to provide to the readers an insight into the world of rare manuscripts."

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"Sony executives said it could take several years to transform the company. And one question is how long Sir Howard himself can maintain his relentless pace. He is undergoing treatment for a degeneration of his left eye, a condition that makes it difficult for him to indulge in one of his passions: collecting and reading rare books. Doctors have told him that his travel schedule does not affect the condition, but there is a 50 percent chance that it could spread to his other eye within five years. "It's not irreversible," he said, but added: "If it went into the other eye, that would be depressing."

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"It was thrilling. I felt a chill run up my back as I happened upon the pictures in a plain manila envelope in a box of a 1940s Roosevelt biographer's research materials. For a geek, this is paradise - what meeting Michael Jordan or Cher, or winning the lottery signifies to a more balanced person. I wanted to shout out loud as I "discovered" the prints, or do one of those Macaulay Culkin arm-cocking gestures from "Home Alone," or a Jim Carrey pelvic rant, or, like Roosevelt at the site of his first buffalo kill, perform an "Indian war dance."

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"Three out of four sons of Mal Singh are working to uphold the book culture throughout Punjab. Mal Singh, a septuagenarian, still visit book fairs, whereas he has completed his lap in the family business. Now the second generation is ready to exchange the baton with the next. Is it not a testimony of their success?"

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"His father, he said, was a bibliophile: When the family had nothing to eat, he would set out to sell some of his books at the used bookstore, but would often come home with new books that he had seen and couldn’t pass up."

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"As the smell of baking bread pumped out of a bakery is to the hungry, so the aroma within 10 feet of the Book Stop's open door is to the book lover."

"The irresistible and intoxicating smell of books - old books - pulls him or her in."

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" Sotheby's reportedly brought from London the most important book in English literature: "The First Folio" of Shakespeare's plays. This was presented in the weekend in Beijing and will be exhibited in Hong Kong from Thursday to Saturday."

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"t would literally take decades to see everything. Only about 4,000 objects are on display at any given time, with the rest stored in honeycomb-like caverns tunnelled into the mountains behind the three-storey museum."

"Every three months, the treasures are rotated under heavy guard. Only a handful of people are authorized to enter the connecting tunnels and make the switch."

"Archival documents and rare books make up the bulk of the collection."

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"The last time Leonard Cohen papers came to the University of Toronto's treasure trove of words and paper, the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, it was 1968. The Fisher purchased 14 boxes worth of drawings, newspaper clippings and drafts, ranging from Cohen's first, unpublished novel, The Ballet of Lepers, to the manuscript for his 1967 novel Beautiful Losers. "We didn't pay much, maybe four digits, but enough to give Leonard a year on the island of Hydra," says Richard Landon, director of the Fisher."

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"Despite the antiquated approach, Russian archives seem to be better catalogued than those in the United States, said Ryan Jones, a graduate student researching Russian environmental history. "As I understand, there was a lot of investment in their organization during Soviet times, both to facilitate access and to figure out what needed to be kept from scholars," he said."

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'"He didn't fit the image of the tweed coat with patches and a pipe," said Mr. King. "He was eccentric, and a self-styled curmudgeon but everybody loved him and he was the patriarch of sorts at King Books.'"

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"Paulson Investment Co. Inc. donated $1 million to the University of Oregon's libraries."

"The donation from Portland-based Paulson, the Northwest's largest independent brokerage firm, will support the University of Oregon libraries' special collections, a repository housing rare books, manuscripts, historical photographs and other unique materials. The Special Collections Reading Room has been renamed the Paulson Reading Room in honor of Paulson Investment. "

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"Halifax researchers are studying a rare medieval manuscript from the 1500s in preparation for a choral performance of the work in 2007."

"Dalhousie University music professor Jennifer Bain is doing painstaking work over the piece of choral music which comes originally from a Cistercian abbey outside of Brussels."

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"After 34 years, the Good Times Bookshop, Suffolk County's oldest antiquarian bookstore, plans to close its doors on East Main Street in Port Jefferson Village at the end of the month if no buyer is found for the business."

'"It's a tragic day," Mason said. "This wonderful bookstore has been a delightful place to meet, talk to friends, see what interesting books Michael and Mary have brought out, and find out what's going on. This is heartbreaking for a lot of us. '"

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"Eliminating the need for its patrons to lug boxes of old books shop-to-shop, Pacific Book Exchange LLC has brought the experience of selling to a used bookstore online."

"Michael Johnson, who founded the online bookseller in San Leandro with his wife, Joy, in 1997, co-developed the site - www.bluerectangle.com - as a way to expand his inventory, after his advertising for books on sites such as Google and Yahoo worked a little too well. "

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"Oxford University has become embroiled in a bitter argument with the most unlikely of foes. The Nikkon Dental University is refusing to return a rare 16th Century book which was stolen from Christ Church over ten years ago. The book, ‘De Humani Corporis Fabrice’ by Andrea Vesalius, was stolen from Christ Church along with seventy-three other books by music lecturer, Simon Heighes, in 1995."

"Over the next eight years, seventy- three of these were located and recovered by the college, but Vesalius’ work, on the topic of human anatomy, has not been returned. It was sold to the Nippon Dental University in Japan and is currently on display in their Museum of Medicine and Dentistry. However, despite repeated appeals by Oxford for its return, Nippon is refusing to negotiate it."

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"I n 1992 Pope John Paul II issued a formal apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for its persecution and trial 359 years earlier of Galileo Galilei for arguing, convincingly and scientifically, that the Earth went around the sun. Among the more than 10,000 volumes in the rare book collection at Linda Hall Library is the book published in 1632 that brought Galileo house arrest until his death in 1642: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems."

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"It is considered by some to be America's first home-grown fairy tale: "The Wizard of Oz," a fantastical story that began as a book and became one of the most popular movies of the 20th century."

"The shoes Judy Garland wore in the 1939 classic film are enshrined in the Smithsonian. The Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man and the Wicked Witch of the West are among the most well-known characters of the cinematic world."

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" New Delhi: With over 50 lakh manuscripts present in several parts of the country, the National Mission for Manuscripts (NMM) has launched a massive survey programme across the country to find out, document and preserve manuscripts within five years' time period."

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"His Majesty's remarks came during the visit he paid on Tuesday to Saint George College of Oxford University in London, during which HM also toured the college's library that contained rare manuscripts, depicting the high level of advancement the old Islamic and Arab civilization was enjoying."

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" For starters, Lucky Diamond Rich, whose epidermis is one giant tattoo, will be juggling on a unicycle and "entertaining" on the main floor. On the balcony, Japanese cult hero publisher/illustrator Mr. Shamda will be selling his rare books while overseeing the work of a "master" tattooist whom he brought along for this trip."

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"A bit more of the world may now be on a mission to engage with it and those who go are unlikely to be disappointed. One of the cathedral's better kept secrets is the Wren Library, built by Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul's in London, in 1674."

"Described by Roy Strong, former curator of London's Victoria and Albert Museum, as "one of the most beautiful rooms in England", the library contains 10,000 rare books dating from before 1801; 260 of which are from before 1501. The oldest volume is a handwritten 10th-century manuscript of homilies by the Venerable Bede."

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"One of New York's great cultural treasures has reopened after a three-year renovation. The Morgan Library and Museum has expanded above and below the ground."

"In a city filled with world-class museums, the Morgan has always stood out because it remains, essentially a library. And what a library it is."

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"A number of prestigious libraries -- including Harvard University's -- have such books in their collections. While the idea of making leather from human skin seems bizarre and cruel today, it was not uncommon in centuries past, said Laura Hartman, a rare book cataloger at the National Library of Medicine in Maryland and author of a paper on the subject."

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"What Ms. Lorenz is doing is the critical if somewhat invisible part of a larger project that has occupied this jewel-like and treasure-rich town in the former East Germany ever since a fire a year and a half ago damaged or destroyed 72,000 volumes in the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, which was one of the greatest collections of old books and manuscripts in the world."

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"And there's the Voynich Manuscript, an illustrated manuscript that sits in Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. It's been around for more than 400 years and written in some mysterious language that no one has ever figured out. The wind was taken out of some cryptographers' sails in 2004 when a study of the text made a convincing case that it's nothing but 232 pages of gibberish."

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" With a mix of live actors, singers, musicians and Katchor's animated images, "The Rosenbach Company" traces the life and career of Abe Rosenbach, one of the world's foremost rare book dealers, and his brother and business partner, Philip. Their collection included James Joyce's manuscript for 'Ulysses' and the original illustrations for 'Alice in Wonderland.'

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"A treasured part of the new Minneapolis Public Library will be found on the fourth floor. That's where guests will be treated to the special collections department."

"Inside the sparkling granite and glass building is found a piece of its past -- it's the repository for thousands of rare books and historical items."

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" The contrast between the old Morgan Library and the new Morgan Library and Museum is like night and day."

"The old library was a dark, sleepy place with a small entrance on a side street and a warren of dimly lit corridors and exhibition rooms. The yawns started as soon as you paid your admission."

"Now, following a three-year renovation during which the rare manuscript and medieval art collection founded by financier J.P. Morgan was closed to the public, a new entrance leads to an expansive, glass-enclosed courtyard suffused with light. "

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"More than a century and a half after his death, Audubon's works are soaring in popularity, thanks to recent biographies and exhibits, including "Audubon's Aviary," showing at the New York Historical Society through May 7. Similarly, the rarity of Audubon's original engravings means that collectors who flock to rare-book and print dealers pay hundreds of thousands for certain prints.

"'I've sold 15 to 20 different birds in the past five months, prices ranging from $3,000 to $175,000," said Harry Newman of Manhattan's Old Print Shop. "Last year, when they rediscovered the supposedly extinct Ivory-billed Woodpecker, the phone calls we got for Audubon's Ivory-billed ... Whoa, amazing.'"

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"The quincentenary of that first publication from a Scottish press is almost two years away, but on the 30th of this month, at the National Library of Scotland, a rolling programme of celebratory events for 2008 will be announced, aimed at involving the community as broadly as possible in celebrating the 500 years of printing in Scotland since that modest volume left the Cowgate printing shop."

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"USC’s substantial, growing collection of political papers, rare books and manuscripts will have a new home by the fall of 2008 in two wings that will begin rising this summer on the east and west sides of the Thomas Cooper Library."

"The $18 million project will improve access to the most diverse collection of post-World War II political papers in the state, and one of the most important such archives in the nation."

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"The retail district will feature luxury hotels, designer boutique-style restaurants and coffee shops, as well as rare book shops and art and craft galleries. A rustic traditional souk, offering Arabian crafts, antiques, and spices and herbs, will be the focal point of the retail district."

"'We have already been approached by a number of international designers and retailers, specializing in unique artistic crafts and merchandising, interested in setting up boutiques in Culture Village. The retail district will be a unique shopping experience,'" said Al Dabal.

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"Gwin J. Kolb, one of the nation’s leading authorities on 18th-century English literature and Samuel Johnson, and a highly regarded teacher at the University, died Monday, April 3, at Montgomery Place in Hyde Park. He was 86. Kolb, the Chester D. Tripp Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and English Language & Literature, dedicated more than half a century to teaching and studying at the University."

"In addition to his remarkable dedication to the University and welcome blend of humor and scholarly work, Kolb also was known as a book collector, amassing an impressive collection of Johnson and his contemporaries that are now in the University’s Special Collections Research Center. He also was a longtime member of the University committee that awards the T. Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting."

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"This story is about a person with a passion for reading and libraries."

"Born in Germany or Poland -- the borders moved over the years -- in 1878, Lucia Bethke came with her family to Oswego in 1892. When she was 14, she began school at the Grange Hall."

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"In the 1960s, there were 800 underground newspapers in the United States. Many lasted a short time, but for eight and a half years, The Great Speckled Bird told the other side that other Atlanta newspapers were afraid to touch."

"Issues of The Bird from 1968 through 1976 are archived on microfilm in the Woodruff Library at Emory University and some hard copies are available through Emory’s rare manuscript section."

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" I cannot think of a single municipality here which would involve itself in such an ambitious, world-class project! Dublin honours its writers, painters and intellectuals, like no other city."

"In the beautifully laid-out park surroundings the historic St Patrick’s cathedral, Dublin’s Millenium celebrations were commemorated with monuments created in memory of 12 extraordinary Irish writers, including Jonathan Swift, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, WB Yeats, James Joyce and, of course, Samuel Beckett. "

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"Deborah Whitcraft's public life is just one chapter in a career as wreck diver, excursion boat operator and all-around waterwoman entrepreneur. She says she will stay active in the borough, working on the Beach Haven First Aid Squad and the municipal Internet site. Her bigger project is a maritime museum for her collection of artifacts and rare books."

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"Profits from this fair are divided between the CFUW and the Moncton Firefighters. The Canadian Federation of University Women Moncton will provide $1,200 scholarships to each of the six area high schools, two $1,000 scholarships for mature students, and one $500 scholarship for a part-time student. Moncton Firefighters will be donating their share to The Moncton Hospital Burn Unit, and to a summer camp in Cape Breton for burn injured kids from Atlantic Canada."

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"Graduate student Emilie Roy and undergraduate Danette Turner took the top prizes in this year's annual Student Book Collecting Contest, sponsored by the University Libraries at ASU."

"All winners were awarded cash prizes at an awards reception that took place April 6 at the University Club on the Tempe campus. Roy and Turner are eligible to participate in the first-ever national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship, which is sponsored by Fine Books and Collections magazine. "

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"The Rs. 2-crore museum will be a treasure house of rare manuscripts, books and sketches of eminent Urdu writers and poets. It will also showcase the growth of the language and the contributions made by a galaxy of writers down the ages."

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"One of those first-edition "folios" from 1623, which could fetch between $4 million and $6 million at an upcoming auction, is in Chicago this week, including Monday night's stop at the Newberry Library."

"'If you're interested in Shakespeare, this is the big one,' said University of Illinois-Chicago art history professor Clark Hulse. "

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"Wendy Koenig has set up shop in a Main Street storefront that used to house a bank - the old vault is still inside, but now it stands wide open and serves as a display for rare books. The rest of the store is filled with bins, racks and floor-to-ceiling wooden shelves of new and used books."

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"Chittagong University (CU) authorities have taken initiative to bring its central library under computerised automation system to rid the students and researchers of the hassle of finding out desired books searching through manual catalogue."

"CU Central Library is among the remarkable libraries in the country with a rich collection of different books, journals and other reading materials."

"But the students, teachers and researchers of the university are to struggle a lot to get a desired book from the catalogues that lie in huge piles in the library."

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"MENLO PARK, CA: Oak Hill Capital Partners announced today that it has acquired Alibris, a leading online exchange for used, hard-to-find and specialty books, music and videos. Terms were not disclosed."

"According to Bill Pade, a Partner with Oak Hill Capital Partners, 'We have conducted extensive research on the used/hard to find/rare book market and related 'long tail' businesses. We are impressed with the position that Alibris has built in this market and with the quality of its management, technology, and business partnerships. We are excited about helping this company grow and prosper.'"

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"Queen Arwa mosque contains on wealthy library full of rare manuscript books about Islam and Arabic language. The library contains on a manuscript of the Holy Qur'an was written creatively since more than 700 years ago. She encouraged woman's education; so; we can find many manuscript books were written by educated woman. Therefore; Jiblah city is called the city of knowledge, information and science. It acted as information and knowledge sources for knowledge students and researchers in the medieval ages."

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"SHE was the head of the ReJoyce festival in 2004, but it was Laura Barnes herself who had cause to rejoice after selling a cache of James Joyce manuscripts to the Irish state for €1.2m."

"The American academic, who bought the material from a Parisian book store about a year before reselling it to the National Library, refuses to say how much she made. But she insists that, despite her previous links to the library, where she has acted as a consultant, the deal was “kosher beyond kosher” and she did not have privileged information. "

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""Incunabula: The World of the Fifteenth Century," a free public exhibit, will run through Aug. 31 in Wilson Library. "Incunabula" refers to books printed from just after Johann Gutenberg invented movable type, about 1454, through the end of that century, said Roberta Engleman, assistant curator of Wilson's Rare Book Collection."

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"'AVTAAR CHARITRA Geeta' penned by Narhar Das is an exclusive manuscript which is being conserved by the Allahabad Museum. Written by Narhar Das, the manuscript is illustrated with 33 coloured photographs and has 629 pages."

"The bulky book is an exhaustive source of the details of avtaars of Lord Vishnu."

"'Narhar Das is said to be the person in whose 'ashram' Tulsi Das stayed for some time during the period of his learning,' said RC Mishra, manuscript in-charge."

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"Archives of one of the most prestigious literary journals will soon reside within the walls of the University library system."

"Editors of the Hudson Review, a half-century-old New York magazine of literature and arts, have chosen Princeton to house its valuable archives."

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"Academic libraries are the forefront of a revolution in the distribution of resources and services, and are far from becoming outmoded by developments in Information Technology, a visiting official from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, has said in a presentation yesterday."

"H Thomas Hickerson, Associate University Librarian for Information Technologies and Special Collections and Director of the Division of Digital Library and Information Technologies, was speaking on ‘Academic Libraries: Dinosaurs facing extinction - or engines of change?’"

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"Welty wrote all of her works in the home, including her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Optimist's Daughter." In 1986 Welty decided that she wanted to leave the home to the state as a tribute to her family, who encouraged her to be an avid reader."

"The Eudora Welty House literary museum has been in development since 2003, and the house was designated a national historic landmark in October 2004, just three years after Welty's death. This designation helped increase funding for restoration and preservation of the house."

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"LONDON: An expert on handwritten books has said that the lack adequate maintenance facilities in depositories of manuscripts is responsible for the decomposition of a large number of rare works, Mehr news agency said."

"Sadeq Eshkevari proposed the establishment of an international foundation for protecting handwritten books. He said that national library has made a public call to owners of handwritten books to donate their books to the library as a trust in order to protect them from damages."

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"ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A fire in the basement of the University of New Mexico's main library spared its more valuable collections, according to UNM officials."

"The fire that broke out Sunday night in Zimmerman Library's first-level basement burned a research collection of bound periodicals, but did not hit the rare manuscripts stored in a different area of the basement, said Camila Alire, dean of university libraries."

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"We all know Sigmund Freud as the father of psychoanalysis, but there is another side of Freud that remains unfamiliar to many: the neuroscientist."

"Before identifying the id and the Oedipus complex, before laying the groundwork for millions of patients to take to the couch, Freud spent years investigating nerve transmission in fish, brainstem function in humans, and other hard-core neurological pursuits. Much of the time, Freud recorded his observations by drawing pictures of what he saw through a microscope - and those drawings will soon be on display for the first time in the United States at the New York Academy of Medicine. "

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"A collection of rare books and reference volumes tracing the history of science and technology, including original works by Isaac Newton and the scientific library of Louis Pasteur, has been donated to the Huntington Library in San Marino, officials announced Monday."

"The Burndy Library, which contains 67,000 books and reference volumes and a collection of scientific instruments, will reposition the Southern California institution as one of the leading centers in the nation for scholarly research in science history, Huntington Library President Steven S. Kolik said."

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"His Charles Seluzicki Fine and Rare Books, which sells through Web sites such as www.ilab.org, has long had a sideline as a fine press publisher, bringing together many fascinating writers, artists and printers. What he’s done represents a slice of the literary underground that rarely gets any press. It also closely reflects the hidden relationships between creative people, a network that would never be believed from relying on the mainstream media and its emphasis on writers’ personalities and rivalries."

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"That's fine with a small group of connoisseurs who love old travel guides and are willing to pay dearly for them. Lucinda Boyle, a vintage guidebook expert for Bernard J Shapero Rare Books in London, said an 1830s edition of Baedeker's guide to northern Germany recently sold for about $7,000."

"Not long ago, I found an 1880 edition of Murray's two-volume handbook on Egypt at the Librairie Ulysse on the Île St. Louis in Paris and briefly considered buying it for about $700. Catherine Domain, the shop's owner, actually used it for a trip to Egypt. 'It tells what people were seeing and thinking at the time. It's like taking a trip within a trip,'she said."

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"NORTHPORT — Used bookstores are the cozy corners of the literary world — the places where famous and not-so-famous writers mingle democratically, in angled piles on table tops, along worn shelves, in stacks leaning against walls already lined with books."

"They are the places of dusty, pulpy smells and creaking floors and little sales counters tucked between books, as if in these places the object isn't really money, but thoughts and words. "

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"AHMEDABAD — A rare 800-year-old book made entirely out of cloth is one among thousands of historic manuscripts housed at the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute of Indology in Ahmedabad, where ancient book preserving techniques are being used."

"'The book Dharamvidi Prakran, written in 1,200 AD, is a rare book written on pages made from cloth by a religious scholar who lived during that period,' Jitendra Shah, the director of the LD institute, told PTI."

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