"But fans of the bookstore need not get too distressed. A new, smaller location will open up at 86 Nassau Street, in Kensington Market. It'll still have the same name, but expect it to have a slightly different focus. Dan Bazuin will be getting out of the business entirely, and the new shop will be run by current partner Charles Huisken and his son."

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"Diana Garrett, who serves on the Program Committee of Friends of the Princeton University Library, adopted a natural history book for her husband’s birthday, saying that she was particularly taken with an illustration of a black squirrel in the book. "

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"'We're going to be dead center in an exciting new area in Columbus,' said Richard Rubin, the Kent State program's director. 'I'd love to take credit for it, but it was a confluence of circumstances.'"

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"Las Vegas high rollers tired of Italian suits and stocked up on designer shoes for wives and lingerie for girlfriends now can turn to Walt Whitman or Benjamin Franklin to scratch their itch to spend."

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"“The Federalist,” conceived in 1787 by the likes of James Madison and others, is a powerhouse of a historical document, according to Heritage Auction Gallaries of Dallas, which plans to unveil the book June 3-4."

"Its estimated value is $150,000 to $200,000."

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"The library housing manuscripts and other precious and rare books like the Holy Quran written by the last Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, was thrown open recently to the public. "

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"...after several hours in the company of the eccentric characters running the antique stores along Industrial Boulevard between Continental and Irving, the silver subcompact festooned with swirls of blue and purple paint, color feathers, and mirrored beads glued to the bumpers was simply par for the course. "

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"The library housing manuscripts and other precious and rare books like the Holy Quran written by the last Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, was thrown open recently to the public. "

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"In addition to the paintings on the walls, gems from Yale's extensive collection of rare books, manuscripts, maps, atlases, and globes convey the history and context of the period. And interesting surprises abound: The map of North America from the 1630s shows "a branch of the south sea not yet discovered" — just west of the Appalachians."

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"In addition, the W.H. Upjohn Rotunda, the entrance to WMU's main library, was named for Mary Meader's father, an early Upjohn Co. executive, in recognition of the Meaders' a $1 million leadership gift for the expansion and complete renovation of that facility in the early 1990s. The library's Meader Rare Books Room was named in honor of the Meaders' continued support of the University libraries."

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"The very beginnings of the genealogy library were some rare books stored in a janitor’s closet at the Carnegie Library, she said. Eventually, the Odom Gift Committee was formed to allocate money from the estate of Ellen Ashby Payne Odom, a trustee of the library. Its purppose was to help build a genealogy library and purchase the Emmett Lucas collection, which is the “core” of the Odom Library. Godwin said the committee included Van Platter, Eva Rice, Merle Baker, Bert Harsh, Campbell Ansley, James Kirk, Jack Short, Bill McIntosh, Jestina Lewis, and Melody Jenkins. "

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"PARIS: Rare-book lovers, museum buyers and fans of Napoleon flocked for a chance to bid on a rich archive on the emperor, put up for sale by former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin."

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"...when a scruffy looking copy of Graham Greene's Rumour at Nightfall appeared in a box of donated books at Oxfam's bookshop in St Giles, Andrew Chapman - one of the volunteers there - thought it might be worth a second look."

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"Darilee Bednar doesn't believe in reincarnation. Still, she thinks she could have been a white Chinese dragon in a previous life."

'They horde things,' she said."

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"A new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens today at the University of California-Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and members of the public alike."

"The university says it is the first freestanding structure at a U.S. university built solely for East Asian collections."

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"The store is a reflection of Paul's eclectic taste - so bits and pieces that he has gathered on his travels can be found alongside his ready-to-wear collections. An assortment of special items, designed exclusively for Globe - rare books, photographic prints (some taken by Paul himself), and unique furniture - will also be available."

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"The Salem Athenaeum is one of those treasures you can drive or walk past every day, perhaps admiring the view, but never really exploring. Members of this venerable organization hope to change all that, bringing more and more people into one of Salem’s loveliest and most storied buildings."

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"Owners of rare books from the era when Vietnam was part of French Indochina were honored Wednesday at the fifth Ho Chi Minh City Book Fair. "

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"One week after Lincoln Foundation officials announced the imminent closing of the museum, the board announced the appointment of a committee to discuss the issues surrounding the decision and determine what is best for the collection and for Fort Wayne, said Mike Westfall, Friends of the Lincoln Museum board president, in a statement."

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"Hitting the books will be part of Erik Ohlander's summer plans thanks to a recent grant from the Purdue University Libraries. The Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) assistant professor of religious studies was awarded the Purdue University Library Scholars Grant, which will allow him to travel to conduct research for his current book project."

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"If Bennett and his colleague, Geoff Smith, head of OSU's Rare Books and Manuscripts Division, have their way, more folks -- academics and laymen alike -- will get a chance to know Burroughs through an ambitious new series of books being published by the Ohio State University Press."

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"Blessed with the avid Miltoniana collecting by two of its founders, the library has mounted a small but rich display of rare books, documents and illustrations related to the man who laid down 10,550 lines of 'Paradise Lost''"

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"An accomplished and renowned collector, Fliegelman specialized in "association copies." These books have a great, sometimes huge, added value largely because of who owned them. In this case, some of Fliegelman's books once belonged to Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George Washington, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster and the Empress of Russia."

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"At his suggestion, Her Majesty became a member of the mobile library and started borrowing books to read at her leisure. She had Norman elevated from a dish-washer to a page boy so that he could be near at hand. She had to keep her new hobby a secret from her staff as heads of state are not really expected to spend their time reading books. "

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"Julian Blackwell, head of the Blackwell's bookstore chain and publishing company, is behind the gift to the vast, 400-year-old academic library. The money will go towards building a new exhibition hall where rare volumes will be put on rotating display for the public."

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"Thor Leifson is the honorary consul of Iceland emeritus and said the Bible was given to his father, J. Victor Leifson, by the family of a missionary who converted Leifson's relatives to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when they lived in Iceland four generations ago. "

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"Much of the Lincoln Museum’s extensive collection – a treasure trove for historians that includes 18,000 books and 350 documents signed by Lincoln, among other rarities – will be digitized or sent to other museums around the country, possibly making it more difficult for researchers to access them all."

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"Odyssey Books, the city's remaining independent book store, plans to close soon because of competition from national chains and online sellers."

"The Global Book Exchange, a Marin nonprofit that collects and distributes used books to children in developing countries, was informed by the city that it must get out of its Hamilton location by the end of the month after eight years there."

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"Pennsylvania's collection of rare books and materials, including early newspapers and many of Benjamin Franklin's political and scientific publications, is moving into a new facility within the State Library to ensure the historic documents are safely preserved."

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"Only about 200 copies of the Victoria Regia were made using chromolithography in the mid-1800 s, and many collectors disassembled the books to showcase the illustrations, chief curator Chris Crosman said. A chromolithograph is an image that is produced using a series of colored plates, rather than being hand-drawn. "

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"Belkhir left a career as a Xerox Corp. researcher to start Kirtas Technologies in 2001, and turning books into gigabytes is proving to be a booming business for the Victor firm, which makes both the robotic equipment and software for digitizing books and other documents. "

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"Cobwebbed and coated in a thick layer of dust, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Shelley are struggling to survive on the shelves of Chaitanya Library. Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath Tagore fare no better, musty and fragile from neglect. "

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