"The City of Miami holds the honor of being one of only five cities - London, Paris, Breda (Holland) and Denver - to host an international map fair. Once again the Miami International Map Fair returns to the Historical Museum of Southern Florida on Saturday, February 7th and Sunday, February 8th."

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"Wilson first became acquainted with the Concord Free Public Library in 1980, when she spent three years working on a grant project. She also worked at the Thayer Memorial Library in Lancaster in the local history and rare books section and eventually found her professional way back to Concord. She became curator of the special collections in 1996."

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"Mickey and Donald were featured in some of 1975 alumnus Steve Rothman's favorite comics when he was growing up and now make up some of the 22,000 comic books and graphic novels he donated to Van Pelt's Special Collections Library."

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"Jackson and a team of calligraphers and artists have spent the last 10 years writing and illustrating the manuscript by hand using quills fashioned from turkey, swan and goose feathers, natural handmade paints and inks, and silver and 24-karat gold on carefully selected calf-skin parchment. The Saint John’s Bible embraces the medieval materials and processes used in creating handwritten Bibles, but it also interprets and illustrates scripture from a contemporary perspective. "

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"The exhibition features original documents and rare books from the Libraries' Special Collections, as well as some pieces from a private collector. Lincoln's ties to Iowa are explored through the stories these documents tell, such as a legal case involving the first bridge over the Mississippi River between Rock Island and Davenport."

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"Gloucestershire County Council is giving specialist collectors the chance to buy spare and unused books and texts that are gathering dust in the county’s libraries."

"The items going on sale are either duplicates, unused and/or in poor and deteriorating condition. None of them directly relate to the county’s history or heritage. The money raised from the sale will be used to maintain and improve Gloucestershire’s library service. "

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"Like many other great research libraries, the Library of Congress has been moving into the digital world."

"One way they're doing it is through a scanning project that has so far put 25,000 books online for anyone to read or download. "

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"For more than 80 years, from the 1890s through the 1970s, the Lower East Side was home to the legendary Booksellers Row, which ran along Fourth Avenue and spilled over into the side streets from Union Square to Astor Place. Specializing in used and rare books, the shops had narrow aisles, filled from floor to ceiling with dusty volumes. Tables out front were stacked high with more books, attracting bohemian teenagers, students, the merely curious and owlish old men who passed the afternoons browsing through yellowed copies of everything from classics like “Treasure Island” and “Leaves of Grass,” to obscure volumes about subjects such as the history of medical research about the digestive track."

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"In honor of Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday, the Library of Virginia, in partnership with Richmond, VA's Poe Museum, is preparing an exhibition on Poe's life and works. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be the Poe Family Bible, a rarely-seen artifact in the Poe Museum's collections. The exhibition will open July 18, 2009. "

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"The 13 volume set was authorized by Congress to be printed by Folwell’s Press for use by the U.S. Congress and House of Representatives. 400 Copies were printed for their use."

"The inside of the book bindings contain book labels showing that they were owned by Edward Everett. Everett was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, United States Seenator, United States Secretary of State, Massachusetts Governor and President of Harvard University."

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"With the rising interest in Americana, local enthusiasts have an outlet in the Berkshires. Monday marked the anniversary of an exhibit at the Williams College Museum of Art housing prints of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation."

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"Rare books are scarce books that appreciate over time, such as first editions or unique books. You'll find classis works such as Lee's Lieutenants on the Civil War, first edition David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, and Nancy Drew Mystery Stories first edition prints, which are becoming scarce due to the fact that the acidic paper will disintegrate in about 100 years."

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"Buried deep below the ground here at the University of Missouri-St. Louis is a time machine. This machine has the capability to take students and researchers alike back in time to the St. Louis 1904 World's Fair, or any and all presidential elections of the 19th century, and it is available for public use every day of the week. The time machine even has a name: The St. Louis Mercantile Library."

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"The activities of the 19th edition of the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair, which is expected to witness a large and unprecedented participation of hundreds of publishers from various countries of the world, will be held March 17-22 in Abu Dhabi, according to His Excellency Mohamed Khalaf Al-Mazrouei, Director General of the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH)."

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"Chicago's Newberry Library recently got a collection of nearly 5,000 books from a seminary. It features some rare items."

"The Newberry is cataloging the books from the McCormick Theological Seminary. The books were sitting in a locked room, and some had never been studied. The library's curator of rare books, Paul Saenger, says it's like going on an archeological dig."

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"A project to build a library to store and preserve one thousand years of Thang Long culture has been built by Ha Noi Publishing House, said its director, Nguyen Khac Oanh."

"The library will store rare books, manuscripts and documents about Thang Long- Ha Noi, as well as act as a depository for long-term research on Hanoi’s history."

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"The digitized books will be hosted by the Internet Archive and available to be indexed by any search engine, or at openlibrary.org. Internet Archive is a nonprofit company that is working on building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts. It provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public. "

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"'I think there's a big market in Hong Kong and surrounding areas, because of the big, affluent, educated and inquiring population who care about culture, both their own and of the world. These people care about books for the ideas and history they contain,' said Paul Feain from Cornstalk Bookshop in Sydney, who is organizing the fair for the second time with Mitsuo Nitta from Yushodo in Tokyo and Christopher Li from Hong Kong Book Centre. "

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"The Princeton University Library has acquired the papers of the American journalist, editor and author T.S. (Thomas Stanley) Matthews, a member of Princeton's class of 1922 who spent much of his long and distinguished professional career at Time magazine. "

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"We rarely see homeless men, business men and school girls gathering for a drink. But this past Saturday, over a hundred people mingled on the main floor of the Central Library, raised Dixie cups of 7-Up, and sang “Happy Birthday” to Edgar Allan Poe. On Saturday afternoon, the Free Library marked the beginning of Philadelphia’s bicentennial commemoration of the author’s life. "

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"Valued at more than $20 million, this is the world’s largest private collection of memorabilia from Abraham Lincoln’s personal and presidential life. It will be housed at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis and the Allen County Public Library (ACPL) in Fort Wayne. Among the more than 20,000 items in the collection are signed copies of the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment; three-dimensional artifacts including Lincoln’s wallet and a chair he sat in for some of his most famous photographs, artwork, thousands of documents, photographs, prints and rare books. "

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"RAJKOT: An exhibition of rare photographs, documents and records of erstwhile princely states of Saurashtra-Kutch region is being organised at archives office on Shrof Road to mark archives week."

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"Many scholars of Chinese art consider a pilgrimage to rural New Hampshire as a rite of passage."

"That is where one of the world's greatest private collections of classical Chinese art resides, along with its 90-year-old owner, Weng Wan-go."

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"A library that holds about 1,000 rare books and historical documents may be forced to move from its Jeffersonville building because temperature and humidity controls haven't worked reliably. "

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" The long history between St. Norbert College and St. Norbert Abbey has been recorded through photographs, correspondence, books, journals and institutional records, creating a rich source of 19th and 20th century Catholic missionary activity among the native and immigrant peoples of Wisconsin."

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"In a cost-saving measure, the Brooklyn Historical Society says it must end Saturday access to its archive, effective immediately."

"The so-called Othmer Library will still be open 12 hours per week — on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 1 to 5 pm — but the loss of Saturday hours will remain in place until at least July, said Society President Deborah Schwartz."

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"A big chunk of African-American history, in Wilmington and elsewhere, can now be studied online, thanks to an effort by the State Library of North Carolina."

"The Raleigh-based state agency has put digital images of a 1910 reference book, An Era of Progress and Promise online as part of its Digital Repository."

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"About 200,000 items from the Gotham Book Mart, which closed in 2007 after 87 years as a New York literary haven of international stature, have been donated to the University of Pennsylvania."

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"Denham describes his books as looking into 'crime and punishment in antebellum Florida during the years 1821 to 1861,' shedding light on “'ustice and mayhem along a southern frontier that stretched beyond Florida’s border to Galveston Bay.'”

"Nearby are books about the artists known as the Florida Highwaymen, books on gardening in Florida and history books that read like a Who’s Who of early educators in Central Florida."

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"A new book, Biblio by photographer Natasha D'Schommer, offers a rare close-up look at many of the exceptional books and manuscripts that belong to the Scheide Library, one of the most significant private book collections in the United States, which is housed in Princeton's Firestone Library. "

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"The online collection will contain full digital reproductions of 150 Romance of the Rose manuscripts from the above libraries as well as the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Completion of the digital library is slated for late 2009. In the meantime, visitors to the Walters can access the collection through internet kiosks in the museum’s manuscripts gallery and leaf through medieval books, zoom in on intriguing details, and compare illuminated manuscripts from around the world. "

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"The roughly 60 prints by a generation of naturalists, including the most famous among them -- John James Audubon -- and Englishman Mark Catesby, who was a leading light of the movement in the 18th century. "

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