"The complex will house rare manuscripts, books, paintings and other artefacts to show the evolution of the religion."
"The Punjab government has also announced that it will honour Moshe Safdie, an Israeli architect who had been involved in designing and implementing the project."
"On Friday, March 30, Canaday Library's Special Collections staff will host a reception to mark the opening of a new exhibition of artists' books, tilted "reBound: Contemporary Artists' Responses to 18th and 19th Century Ticketed American Bindings." The reception, which is free and open to the public, will take place in the lobby of Canaday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The exhibition will be on display through May 11, during regular library hours. "
"The first-prize winner receives the 2007 James Joyce "Nancy Duffy Award," a rare book donated by Geoffrey Hoefer, of New York City, in memory of Holocaust survivor Rosi Moses-Scheuer."
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"ST. BONAVENTURE — Construction will begin in early April on the new Paul and Irene Bogoni Rare Books Library, an addition to St. Bonaventure University’s Friedsam Memorial Library."
"Library Director Bill Kehler said that if the person who bought the volume returns it, the complete set will be sold on the Internet and the profits will be split between the library and the buyer."
"There are two separate competitions for undergraduate and graduate students, who will be awarded the Harris Fletcher Book Collecting Award and the T.W. Baldwin Prize for Book Collecting, respectively. "
"One leading alchemist is a Manhattan rare-book dealer named Glenn Horowitz, who in recent years has come to dominate the rarefied market in literary archives. Like the art and real estate markets, the archive market has gone through the roof, and Horowitz, with his wealthy clients and a belief that books will gain increasingly fetishistic status in the digital age, has helped bolster it. "
"SALT LAKE CITY -- A rare Book of Mormon and a hymnal each sold for $180,000 during an auction this week."
"The purchase price for both items is believed by some Mormon scholars to be among the highest ever paid for historic documents associated with the early history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints."
""It's a very eclectic library. We have a very fine rare book collection. Our earliest book is from 1150. We have a very fine archival collection, about 15,000. They do not leave the library and the stacks are not open to the public but people can request to see something. The rare books require an appointment," Medert said."
"William (Bill) Mastoris Jr., who in retirement has earned three degrees from UTSA, has donated to the UTSA Library a 285-year-old Koran that he purchased in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 1970 while serving in the U.S. Army."
"Among the objects to be exhibited at the institute are vases from almost five thousand years ago, sets of artefacts from Syrian prehistory, Byzantine icons, Greek and Roman vases, rare books from the 18th and 19th centuries, stamps from Mesopotamia and fossils of the whole world. "
"Original maps of Wisconsin and the Great Lakes region from 17th-century drawings concocted from travelers' accounts to 21st-century images captured by satellites are on display through June 29 in the Department of Special Collections in Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison."
"The University of Delaware Library has been named a co-recipient of the 2007 Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Award for the exhibition catalog, 'Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond: The Influence of Ezra Pound on Twentieth-Century Poetry.'"
"The exhibition will open in the Milberg Gallery of Firestone Library on campus in advance of the production of Alexander Pushkin's play about the Russian tsar Godunov, which will premiere April 12 at the Berlind Theatre."
"The Leipzig Book Fair has emerged as Germany's second largest exhibition after the internationally renowned Frankfurt Book Fair as more than 2,200 exhibitors from 36 countries will showcase their latest works in the east German city of Leipzig from March 22-25."
"The Judicial Museum is the brain child of the present Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court Justice Bashir Ahmed Khan. It was on his initiative that Srinagar Judicial Museum came up in July and was inaugurated by the then Chief Justice of India Justic Y K Sabharwal. "
"A rare book by the naturalist Charles Darwin is going on display today at the State Library of New South Wales."
"The first edition of On the Origin of Species, once owned by Darwin's great-grandson, was acquired by the library at auction in London for $191,000."
" Just when you begin wondering aloud whether this muddy and squelchy excuse for a road is the ‘only way’ to a heritage site which houses over 17,000 rare manuscripts, 80,000 printed books, 5000 miniature paintings and so much more… you are confronted by it’s scholastic silence and without completing your question, you just shut up. "
"At number 26, Piazza di Spagna, at the base of the Spanish Steps, in a little red house also known as Casina Rossa, Keats spent the last months of his life. The house in Rome was acquired by the Keats and Shelley Association in 1907 and has been converted into a museum dedicated to the poets of the Romantic Age."
"Bill and his wife moved to Naples in 1990, when she signed up as the administrator at Lely Palms. Bill had been an urban planner, but after a few years in Naples he decided to follow the family business located in Duxbury, Mass., and start a used book outlet in Naples. Wickham Books South opened in 1993, and it continues to offer shelves of out-of -print and rare books..."
"WITH voluntary donations of rare manuscripts and books coming its way, the vast treasure of rare handwritten scripts at the Oriental Institute of MSU is growing richer. Recently, the Gwalior-based Kelkar family donated around 150 manuscripts to the institute, which are believed to be 250 years old. Earlier, a family from Wai, Satara in Maharashtra had given some given rare manuscripts to the institute, and there have also been such donations from families and individuals across Gujarat. "
"A Yemeni-Italian team doing archaeological and historical research in Yemen found more than 150 ancient rare manuscripts beneath a minaret of al-Jaami’a al-Kabeer, the Grand Mosque, on March 10. The Grand Mosque in the old city of Sana’a is undergoing a massive rehabilitation project carried out by this team, which comes from the Veneto Institute for Conservation and Cultural Heritage in Italy."
"AMERICAN architects plan a smaller-scale replica of China's oldest existing private library, Ningbo's Tianyi Pavilion, at the University of Rhode Island's Confucius Institute, now under construction, the Zhejiang Daily reported yesterday."
"'By 2021, I predict, you will be able to buy the same RAM stick with 32 terabytes,' said Michael Hart, founder of the nonprofit Project. "That means every word in every major library in the world - you could carry them all around your neck or on your key chain.'"
"The University of Iowa Libraries and the UI History of Medicine Society will sponsor an open house of one of the finest collections of notable anatomical illustrations in the United States from 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in the John Martin Rare Book Room of the UI Hardin Library for the Health Sciences."
"He and his brother, Carl Lund, recently donated the signed manuscript, which had been in their family for three generations, to the rare book room of Southeast Missouri State University's Kent Library."
"The poem, which has one misspelling -- the word, "balloon" -- will be published for the first time at the university. Its contents are not being released until then."
"'We’re not selling all of the collection,' McNamara pointed out. 'We are not selling the books that are critical to the history of the college.'
"McNamara said Rockford College will retain pieces related to its most famous alumna, Jane Addams. McNamara also noted no items from the archival room will be sold. "
"A collection of rare books and letters is expected to fetch more than half a million pounds when it is auctioned.
Items on sale include first editions of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Charles Dickens' Great Expectations and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland."
"Meet Wayne Pernu. He's what is known as a Book Scout. He's also a 40-something musician and journalist. But his main source of income comes from several hours a week in dirty thrift stores and at estate and library sales where he's on the hunt for bargain books that he can turn around and sell to Powell's or other used book stores. "
"GUWAHATI, Feb 25 – The National Mission for Manuscripts, Department of Culture, Government of India, has proclaimed two valuable and rare manuscripts, Chitra Bhagabata and Ratnamala Vyakaran, written on sanchipat and preserved at the KK Handiqui Library of Gauhati University as ‘Vijnananidhi: Manuscript Treasure of India’. Manuscripts declared as Vijnananidhi are selected for their outstanding value to the whole of humanity and for their contribution to Indian life or to the development of Indian thought or the preservation of its culture. The Mission seeks to pay homage to the landmarks in Indian intellectual history by identifying manuscripts with unique heritage value and designating these as ‘Vijnananidhi.’ "
"And when it comes to reading the stars, language should not come across as a hindrance, so they keep books in not just Hindi, but English and Bengali as well. One is not sure if the growth over the years would have satisfied the Jamshedpur lawyer who had first inspired the idea of the library but the plans for the future should sound interesting to those interested in all things to do with the future. "
"The collection of books, journals, films, clothing and artifacts spans several cultures: Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Hmong, Korean, Russian, Thai, Ukrainian and Vietnamese."
"It was started in the early 1980s when Lewis was coordinating multicultural programs for schools in Rancho Cordova, which was seeing an influx of Hmong and Vietnamese refugee immigrants. Many teachers were unfamiliar with their students' cultures, prompting Lewis and other educators to form the Refugee Educators' Network and build a collection of educational material for teachers and members of the community."
"The explorers and sailors of the 15th century were well aware that the Earth was round, but only on September 6, 1522, a ship completed the circumnavigation of the globe. It was the Victoria, one of the ships that had sailed under Ferdinand Magellano..."
"A rare first edition King James Bible that languished for decades in a small storage room on the second floor of the downtown library is now at Sotheby's in Manhattan, where it just might fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction in June."
"SALT LAKE CITY - It’s a rare find left for years in a box in a barn. "
" A first edition Book of Mormon will be sold at an auction in New York City on March 22. It is owned by an antique dealer who purchased books and put them in an upstate New York barn before discovering the valuable text. "
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