"The museum owned by Lincoln National Corp. was scheduled to close at the end of June so that the items it once thought would attract larger crowds can be displayed where more people will see them during the Abraham Lincoln bicentennial celebration next year."

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"Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet will be able to look at the university's 376-year-old copy of Galileo's Dialogue, for example, or to flip through books that once belonged to philosopher Bertrand Russell, including the notes he made in the margins. "

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"THE micro-films of 1238 rare books from the library of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi were taken and sent to the US Congress library without the approval of the general council or the executive committee of the Akademi."

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"SMALL cosy places like this give Helsinki a surreal feeling similar to that of Mr Magorium’s fairy world or Amélie Poulain’s charm. Oh, how aesthetic: read a rare book, drink green tea, converse with a passing traveller."

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"Email from proprietor Michael Dawson announces that Los Angeles' oldest bookstore, now located on Larchmont Boulevard, will go to appointment only. Dawson's has sold books in L.A. since 1905 and for a while also published books."

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"The haul worth more than £200,000 was discovered by workmen after they hacked their way through an overgrown garden to clear the house in New Malden, Surrey."

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"Another huge accomplishment was raising enough money to build the Claire McGill Luce Western History Room, which features two special collections of rare books. Under Wynn’s direction, the library was also re-sided, the parking lots repaved and the interior spruced up with new carpet, paint and upholstery."

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"The Mount Angel Abbey hosted its second annual Festival of Art and Wine Tasting on Saturday and raised more than $95,000 for the Abbey Library."

"The event gave visitors a chance to see some of the rarest books in in the world."

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"One of northeast Ohio's most notable bookstores is putting its rare inventory up for auction, NewsChannel5 reported. "

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"For over 25 years, O'Dell, who died in March 2007 at age 53, was the proprietor of Chapel Hill Rare Books in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Considered one of the preeminent Civil War dealers in the country, O'Dell was also well known as a collector. "

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"Every town should have one - a great local bookstore, that is, and Peekskill is lucky to have Bruised Apple Books. It's like a well-loved study in a worn old manse, with appropriately creaky, wooden floors and books lining shelves that reach to the ceiling."

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"The lock had been fashioned into a weeping willow, a symbol of mourning or resurrection, according to Dominic Winter Auctioneers of Cirencester, Glos., where the sale took place."

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"The Steele archive - thousands of letters, journals, maps and photos - will be handed over in London today in a ceremony at Canada House presided over by Prince Edward. The Prince is the honorary Deputy Commissioner of the RCMP, and Steele was the prototype Mountie, having been the third man to enlist in the North-West Mounted Police."

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"Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet will be able to look at the university's 376-year-old copy of Galileo's Dialogue, for example, or to flip through books that once belonged to philosopher Bertrand Russell, including the notes he made in the margins."

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"Brooks, an Australian who won the Pulitzer Prize for her earlier novel, March, came on the story of the Sarajevo Haggedah – a collection of Jewish biblical stories – when she was a foreign correspondent covering the aftermath of the war in Bosnia. Its heroine is Australian rare books expert Hanna Heath, who is offered the job of analysing and conserving the famed Jewish volume and in doing so becomes determined to unlock its history."

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"For an undisclosed price, the college purchased a second edition of his groundbreaking 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), published in 1566, which made the then-heretical claim the sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe."

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"'When I think about moving rare books from the bottom of the library, I weep,' he said. He pulled sandbag duty with a hulking Hawkeye football player."

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"There are a couple of reasons why independent bookstores are declining, but none applies to Jay's Book Stall in Oakland, closing Friday after 49 years."

"'I'm going to be 80 in August and waiting for 'Dancing With the Stars' to call,' Jay Dantry joked yesterday, explaining why he's retiring and closing down. He opened his shop, at 3604 Fifth Ave., in 1959, but has sold books for 53 years.'"

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"Holzinger and the library volunteers who unearthed it don't even know who dropped off the 135-year-old book, a first American edition of Verne's novel about the mysterious Capt. Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus."

"The book will go on sale at noon today at a book sale benefiting the library. Holzinger coordinates similar sales at the library six times each year, but few feature a rare find such as the Verne novel."

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"Clark predicts a two-volume, first edition set of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, dating from 1860, will be of keen interest to classical literature fans. Other rare books on offer will be an 1888 "first colonies edition," of Thomas Hardy's Wessex Tales and a 1930 first edition of William Faulkner's iconic As I Lay Dying."

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"Each document has a dedicated, interactive kiosk that allows students and researchers to closely examine the library's treasures and to trace the origins of the country's founding ideas. For example, they might learn that the Bill of Rights was initially created as a diversion to prevent the anti-Federalists from rehashing the entire Constitution."

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"The room contains hundreds of art books collected by John Ringling. After his death in 1936, every item in his residence, Cà d'Zan, was inventoried and cataloged, "every room, every shelf, so you know what book was on which shelf in what room," said Ringling librarian Linda McKee."

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"There are 423 of them, including the first seven law books purchased by Benjamin Franklin for the library -- a 1734 set of "Statutes-at-Large," a collection of the laws of England -- and a book by British philosopher John Locke that declares that man has a right to "life, liberty and estate."

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"Photographer, collector, author, publisher, archivist, and researcher Peter Palmquist assembled an astonishing collection of a quarter-million photographs during his lifetime, many of them documenting the history of Humboldt County. He was killed by a hit and run driver in January 2003 at the age of 66. "

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"Microsoft has backed out of its plan to digitize tens of thousands of volumes at the Allen County Public Library, but the library is still likely to benefit from its brief involvement in the project."

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"A self-described "bibliophile" or book lover, Lane displays at book fairs throughout New England and plans to continue doing so, as well as selling online, a practice he had to give up previously, "because I just had too many irons in the fire," he said. He is now looking forward to seeing old friends and making new ones five days a week in Volumes' new location in Hampton."

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" Have an old manuscript collecting dust in a drawer? Borders is also betting, smartly, on the trend toward self-publishing, offering a station where customers can submit manuscripts to be turned into bound books. While this service is widely available through other vendors, Borders offers a special enticement: It promises to consider these books for placement on store shelves or for book-signing events."

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"Cairo – The restoration laboratory at the Library of Alexandria's Centre of Manuscripts and Rare Books, in Egypt, is now considered one of the most modern sites in the world for recovery and preservation of antique documents. The organisation has already worked on over 2,000 rare books, 500 manuscripts and 120 maps."

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"A Bible written in Old Norse nearly 400 years ago has been donated to Brigham Young University's library by a Provo resident."

"Thor Leifson, the honorary consul of Iceland emeritus, says the Bible was given to his family by a missionary who converted Leifson's relatives to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints four generations ago."

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