"A rare archive of images of Scotland's past will be safeguarded for future generations at Glasgow University.
The specially designed facility will store a series of collections by the pioneers of photography."
"A rare archive of images of Scotland's past will be safeguarded for future generations at Glasgow University.
The specially designed facility will store a series of collections by the pioneers of photography."
"A stretch of Sixth Avenue north of 110th Street was renamed Lenox Avenue in 1887 after millionaire philanthropist and book collector James Lenox. In the late 1980s, the street got another name change to recognize Malcolm X."
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"Unpublished and Uncensored: Sex, War & Dogs is a collection culled from the 62 Thurber drawings donated in 2005 to The Ohio State University's Rare Books and Manuscripts Library by the estate of Nora Sayre. The drawings have been organized into seven series for the exhibit. "
"The Audubon exhibit features more than 60 of the original large hand-colored engravings from "The Birds of America", selected from the collection and archives of the John James Audubon Museum at Henderson, Ky."
"Case in point is a copy of the first edition of Diologo di Galileo Galilei Linew Matematico sopra ordinario (Dialogues on the two chief systems of the world) published in 1632 AD in Florence. The book was banned by the Church and later led to Galileo’s house arrest. "
"Hmm, what is this? I met Jared and Amanda Patchin, owners of the just-opened Veritas Fine Books and Coffeehouse, 3500 Chinden Blvd. "
"...It's a used and rare bookstore that specializes in western American and Idaho history. "
"The University Library System (ULS) of the University of Pittsburgh will receive the entire European Union depository collection-the most extensive collection of public European Community/European Union documents and publications in North America-from the Delegation of the European Commission to the USA in Washington, D.C., and make it available intact to patrons of Pitt's Hillman Library."
"The University of Louisville Libraries has launched a Digital Collections website to provide educational and research access to digital versions of selected materials from University Archives and Records Center, Special Collections and other units."
"One of the most notorious book thieves on record - John Charles Gilkey - was pursued for more than three years by book collector Ken Saunders."
"Saunders, owner of Ken Saunders Rare Books in Salt Lake City, is the honored bookseller at today's Gold Rush Book Fair at the Nevada County Fairgrounds."
"AVID book collector David Butterfield will do almost anything to get his hands on a rare classical text."
"The 21-year-old Cambridge University student wrote a letter in Danish to charm a seller in Scandinavia into selling a rare unpublished Housman letter. Now his dedication has been rewarded with an award for his impressive collection."
"The entire contents of the 87-year-old Gotham Book Mart - from rare first-edition John Updike novels to the worn-out oriental rug on the third floor - was sold en masse for $400,000 at a court-mandated auction. "
"For 50 years, the old box of documents collected dust in the West Hollywood garage of Twyla Martin. She knew it had something to do with author John Steinbeck, with whom Martin's husband worked briefly in the 1950s."
"The line outside the Gotham Book Mart in Midtown snaked down the block yesterday morning. Several dozen eager bargain hunters, book dealers, art collectors and former employees of the storied shop waited to bid on a piece of literary history."
"After less than two years as director of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, William Griswold has announced he is leaving his post to become director of the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Griswold's move puts the MIA back in the hunt for a new leader at a time when several other museums around the country are doing the same thing. "
"Seabury-Western's special collections include the Hibbard Egyptian Library and the Hale Rare Book Collection with exemplars of early prayer books. Garrett-Evangelical's special collections include the Wesleyana Collection and the Keen Bible Collection of English editions of the Bible."
…Cloistered, celibate printers at the Ephrata Cloister in the 1740s.
…Hot-headed, colonial printers.
…Printers’ apprentices become media moguls.
…The most successful American woman printer of the 1800s.
…and lots of Amish and Mennonite letterpress history:
(To help reclaim Germanic, Fraktur fonts for my Amish grandparents.)
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"Before her death in 2001, Nora Sayre arranged to leave a special gift to Ohio State University."
"The essayist and critic promised the director of the OSU Rare Books and Manuscripts Library all the James Thurber drawings in her possession."
"There was no cake. There were no candles. There was just a bunch of middle-aged men standing around in the back room of the library at the New York Botanical Garden yesterday, talking about the birthday boy and sex."
"An introduction to herbals assembled by librarian Charlotte Tancin places the exhibition in historic context and includes one of the largest such books printed in English (John Parkinson, 1640) and a circa 1759 work by Timothy Sheldrake that was one of the last generalist volumes made."
"Thanks to a special impact grant of $184,740 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a University of Iowa researcher will undertake a new analytical survey of western paper made between the 14th and the 19th centuries. "
"Audrey Geisel, philanthropist and widow of the late Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel, has continued her long-running support of the UCSD Libraries with a $1-million donation - the largest the system has received in its history. "
"The gift will inaugurate the Audrey Geisel University Librarianship, a position for which Geisel handpicked UCSD's current chief librarian, Brian E.C. Schottlaender."
"But the library authorities have claimed that readers will not suffer. “The police have been instructed to allow everyone with a valid membership card and so there shouldn’t be any problem. But there could be some restrictions between 5.45pm and 6.15pm,” said Sudhendu Mandal, director of the National Library."
"Instead, as a premonition of what is to come, even the intersection of Broadway and 12th Street is liberally strewn with metal carts of $1- and 50-cent books. No beady-eyed staffers loiter about to make sure you don’t nip off with a crumbling paperback, so the conviction in individual honesty seems touching. On the other hand, if I had 18 miles of books, I’d probably have to lodge some of them on the street too. "
"COLUMBIA, S.C. --The University of South Carolina got a $3 million endowment from the estate of the late Edward S. Hallman to buy more materials and maintain its Ernest Hemingway collection."
"An authority on rare books is drawn into a confrontation with the forces of darkness in this thriller directed by Roman Polanski. Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) is a rare book broker who makes his living tracking down valuable items for rich bibliophiles."
"The private photography library of photographer John Teti was donated to the institute. It consists of 2,000 books dating to the early days of photography."
"'At the time John Teti told me that he was going to give us the library, I thought, 'I'm going to have a heart attack right now to have this tremendous asset that I can now share with my students on a daily basis,' said Gary Samson, chairman of the photography department."
"The National Library of Scotland has kicked off a $3.6 million project to digitize its archive and make it available online. "
"The NLS, established in 1925, holds copies of every publication in the U.K., dating from the Middle Ages right up to the latest novels. "
"Kermode, who is best known for his celebrated studies on D.H. Lawrence and Shakespeare, also achieved some notoriety in the 1960s when he resigned from a literary magazine he discovered was funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency."
"The UCLA Library has launched "Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920–90," an online collection of more than 5,000 photographs from the Los Angeles Daily News and the Los Angeles Times. "
"The idea of the college library functioning as the heart of the campus might seem out of date, now that students can do research on their laptops without leaving their dorm rooms. But fears of library obsolescence have never panned out, said Robert L. Horrell, dean of libraries at Dartmouth College and a former librarian at Harvard and Syracuse universities."
"AHMEDABAD: Years of turmoil in the Kashmir valley has not only cost hundreds of human lives but also eroded the ancient historical and cultural ethos of the state in the form of thousands of rare books and manuscripts that have been burnt or destroyed by religious hardliners."
"My favorite bookstores are the Elliott Bay Book Co. (101 S. Main St., Seattle), followed closely by Third Place Books (Lake Forest Park Towne Centre and Ravenna). These stores are vast monuments to a bibliophilic world that is fading fast in the face of computers. The best part about either of these bookstores is that there are places to sit and read until the store closes." — James Hibbs, Yakima
"HALIFAX — The door to Brian Purdy's basement apartment in Halifax's north end is more square than rectangular, a hatch entered ducking down."
"A few short steps land you in the middle of his living room, which doubles as his new bookstore, Back Alley Books, with its untreated wooden shelves stocked with vintage, collectible and signed works of literary fiction, art and non-fiction. They range from rare hardcover editions to what Purdy terms 'paperback originals.'"
"Some of the incunabula and journals which will be available by clicking a mouse include The Platonic Dialogues for English Readers published in 1589, Calendar or state papers and manuscripts relating to English affairs from 1607-1610, The History Of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England, by Edward Hyde, published in 1888, and others."
"Turner is director of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and serves as the John Hay Whitney professor of history at the University, where he has taught since 1970. He was Yale University's provost between 1988 and 1992."
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"The archives also has the box in which Gandhiji’s ashes were kept for 46 years, from November 1950 to January 1997. The archives also display the notes issued by the bank from 1806 to 1862 after which the government came up with a standard currency. "
"One book in the collection, available for $3,000, is a first edition of a play written by Jack London. The Popeks spent three months researching it."
"'There was mention that he wrote it,' Michael Popek said, 'but there were no known copies available. That's when pricing books becomes difficult: There's no standard.'"
"The Newberry Library and the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies have acquired a 15th Century printing of a work by Nicolaus of Lyra."
"'We're particularly eyeballing rare books and special collections in terms of having our more important and valuable material available to a wider audience,' said Chris Hives, the UBC archivist behind this growing paperless library."
"'What we have focused on most recently are smaller but important collections, like the [Charles] Darwin letters and Florence Nightingale letters.'"
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development office has awarded $300,000 to Kaua'i Island Utility Co-op, which in turn will loan it to the National Tropical Botanical Garden to help pay for its new library and research center."
"She [Mina Hemingway] also wrote an introduction for a special printing of her grandfather's classic and The Old Man and the Sea, the sales of which benefit the Ocean Conservancy. This book is only available locally, and most conveniently at Mina Hemingway's Florida Book Store, which is located in the Pavilion Shopping Center at 857 Vanderbilt Beach Rd. That same address had already been a destination bookstore for over 20 years before Mina started her business there this past September."
"Last weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Boston Public Library's main branch in Copley Square to see their miniature books exhibit entitled 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures. While I have always considered handmade books pieces of art, I have to say that the miniature versions are awe-inspiring."
"Tucker had a passion for rare books, rock and folk music, and heavy drinking. While the varied group of Ithacans he befriended spoke of his wild side (e.g. bartending New Year's Eve at The Nines and buying junky used cars to drive down to New Orleans or to California on a lark), they equally expressed their admiration for his kindness.
'He never said a bad word about anyone,' said Julie Jordan, the former owner of the Cabbagetown Café.'"
"The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the UCLA Library a grant for a project to catalog, digitize and provide online access to the Caro Minasian Collection of Near Eastern manuscripts. "
"The collection forms a rich repository of Islamic learning and contains more than 1,500 manuscripts in Arabic and Persian dating from the 14th to the 19th centuries on astronomy, government, history, language and grammar, law, literature, philosophy, religious practice, and science."
"PATNA: More than 5,000 rare manuscripts in different languages are decaying in the Patna University (PU) Central Library for want of proper upkeep and preservation. "
"Even as the library was linked with the Information and Library Networking programme of the UGC several years back, these valuable manuscripts are yet to be transformed into digital and electronic forms. "
"On a trip to the Brighton Aquarium, Burne-Jones found himself gawping at her tattoos – particularly the version of Leonardo Da Vinci’s The Last Supper which covered the vast expanse of her back."
"Visiting both authors' homes provided a fascinating study in 19th-century class and society in America. Should you be headed to the Berkshires—for live music at Tanglewood, a Shakespeare performance, or rugged adventure in the mountains—consider stopping for a visit at the homes of these literary greats. Even if you're unfamiliar with their works (as was my traveling companion), you won't be disappointed."
"Linda Steadman, owner of Too Many Books in Roanoke, says one of the strangest finds she remembers stumbling across in Roanoke was a rare book of witchcraft spells. She bought it for $1, sold it for a $150. 'It had the sticker of the Aleister Crowley bookshop in Jacksonville (Fla.) in it, and I’m from Jacksonville,' she said. Crowley was an infamous occult figure. 'It was very synchronistic.'"
"Charles Sorenson didn’t find '50 Years in the Saddle' by accident last month. He’d gone to Buffalo in search of the book — a memoir Ricketts had written about his life as a rancher in northeastern Wyoming."
"His wife had spotted the book in a advertisement announcing the auction. He’d planned to buy the book for his brother as a present."
"KARACHI: Sindh Archives has received all 72 volumes of Syed Shamsul Hasan’s historic collection from the National Documentation Center (NDC), Islamabad while documents regarding the Sindh Governor’s Report between the period of 1937 to 1947 has also begun in consignments."
"Richard Booth turned a sleepy village on the Welsh border into a place where thousands of bibliophiles flock each year to mingle with authors, browse the shelves and celebrate the written word."
"NORTH HILLS - Writer Joel Eisenberg was poring over some crumbling manuscripts at 3 a.m. when the bombshell hit. "
"He realized the handwritten scrawl swimming before his eyes was none other than the missing draft of "Sweet Thursday" by Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. "
"The marvel is not the content of the book, or the idea of publishing it, but that it is only 18 by 13 millimeters -- about 3/4 inches by 1/2 inch. In its day, it was the smallest book ever printed with movable type, using 2-point type called "Fly's eye." As Galileo suffered for his science, so legend says the 1896 typesetter went blind from making his masterpiece."
"McAleese made these remarks at Emory on Monday after a private tour of the Manuscript, Archive and Rare Book Library (MARBL), which the University says houses the finest collection of Irish literature outside of Ireland."
"The MARBL collection includes the papers of Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney, and poets Thomas Kinsella and Medbh McGuckian. The library also holds the literary archive of Irish novelist Edna O'Brien."
"The college's H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies recently purchased a copy of 'Congrégation sur l’élection éternelle de Dieu.'"
"The book was printed in Geneva in 1562 by Vincent Bres and only five libraries in Europe are known to own it and none in the United States."
"The University of Georgia owns the only known final copy of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America. "
"Every day I spend long hours in the Rare Book Room of the Cambridge University Library, reading books so obscure that even Firestone doesn't have them. But the Rare Book Room has wi-fi; and the splendid room where I work has DSL; so this year, the world and New Jersey are never very far away, as this column shows."
"First prize in the undergraduate category was awarded to John McReynolds ’09 for his collection entitled 'Travels in Poetry.' First prize in the graduate category was a tie between Diana Looser grad for her collection 'Dramatic Literature of Oceania, c.1970-Present' and Brent Morris grad for 'The Abolitionist Mind.'"
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