"For Emilio DeGrazia, author, book collector and dealer in Winona, books have been a way of life for most of his life. In addition to the several works he has written and co-edited with his wife, Monica, he has an extensive personal collection and an inventory of about 40,000 used books, many of which are for sale at Sugar Loaf Antiques in Winona."
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"About a year ago, a writer for one of the town's less-than-every-day papers infamously reported with regret that the Reading Room bookstore at Mandalay Place inside the Mandalay Bay was closing, leaving Las Vegas without any independent booksellers."
"Las Vegas was not and still is not without independent booksellers, needless to say, and I'm not merely talking about the Philadelphia-based (and markedly upscale) Bauman's Rare Books, which moved into Sheldon Adelson's Palazzo last year."
"One of the benefits of living in the Washington, D.C. area is the wealth of cultural and educational institutions. As National Library Week approaches, plan a family literacy field trip to one of the largest institutions on Capitol Hill - The Library of Congress. "
"Next to the National Library of the Philippines, the library with a significant number of manuscripts by or to Jose Rizal is the Lopez Memorial Museum. Aside from the magnificent Filipiniana collection that grew out of a core of rare books assembled by Eugenio Lopez Sr. from dealers in Europe and the United States, the Lopez Museum has art galleries, a modest conservation laboratory and newspaper files where one can reconstruct Philippine history before martial law in 1972."
"...on May 26 and 27, the Parisian auctioneer and horology expert Hervé Chayette will disperse the vast working library of the Milanese horological historian Giuseppe Brusa at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris, proving again that Drouot remains a treasure trove for the most esoteric finds."
"Rare and historic books currently being conserved by an international team of specialists at the University of Ulster’s Magee campus give a fascinating insight into life in the North-West hundreds of years ago. The books are part of the Church of Ireland Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Collection, which dates back to the 15th century."
"Ten years after he stopped creating his famous Peanuts comic strip, and nine years after his death, Charles Schulz is still attracting attention. California-based autograph, rare book and Hollywood memorabilia dealer Nate Sanders is amazed at the attention an original Peanuts comic strip -- hand-drawn and signed by Schulz -- is drawing to his auction house, and believes the one-of-a-kind piece could draw record-breaking bids late this month when his current auction closes. "
"Acquisition of the 4 millionth volume for the Texas A&M University libraries will be commemorated Thursday (March 26) marking a major milestone for the state's oldest public university."
"The Bodleian's struggle to store its vast collection of books may finally be at an end, as the library has bought a new site in Swindon."
"Up to 8 million books will be stored at the new site, 28 miles away from Oxford."
"That's right. The Dow Jones may be half of what it once was (and so is my 401K), but the market for book collectors is on fire. And, as a book collector, not just a book buyer, this means you can have your book and read it, too."
"The couple had worked as scientists in the department of astronomy and physics of London University. They have collected these books between 1920 and 2006 and all books are mainly on science and it's different categories like clinical research, biomedical technology, physiology, biochemistry, physics and nature."
"Princeton University has placed a new digital library of 200 Islamic manuscripts online for scholars to consult and study."
"These manuscripts were selected from some 9,500 volumes of Islamic manuscripts in Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish and other languages of the Muslim world in the University Library's Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton's extraordinary holdings constitute the premier collection in the Western Hemisphere and among the finest in the world, according to Don Skemer, curator of manuscripts."
"Rare manuscripts and books about early expeditions to Arabia attracted government archivists at the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair today, and they invested in several of the centuries-old editions."
"On March 26, 2009, Swann Auction Galleries will present “Printed & Manuscript Americana” featuring historic baseball material from the game’s earliest days, property from the Roger Hollander collection, as well as items related to presidents and other important American figures, including Thomas Edison."
"Fleur de Lys, the five-acre estate in Holmby Hills, is listed at $125 million. The palatial 15-bedroom mansion was built by Texan billionaire David Saperstein. According to Luxist, the 41,000-square-foot French limestone mansion features Italian marble walls, French limestone floors, gold-embossed leather wall coverings, gold-leaf crown moldings, a ballroom with ceiling frescoes, a library complete with rare books..."
"Taiwan's National Central Library (NCL) and the National Library of Latvia signed a cooperative agreement Monday to establish bibliographies and indexes of Chinese literature and ancient Chinese books, a NCL official said Tuesday."
"Patrons show off their new dogs and exchange updates about college-bound children, while checking if their favorite novel came in or if owner JoAnne Geiger remembers the title of that great book they gave as a shower gift last year."
"The NEH has awarded the Sibley Music Library a two-year $273,820 grant to digitize approximately 10,000 to 12,000 musical scores which are in the public domain, reside in the Library’s general collections, and are held by not more than two other libraries in the world."
"A rare copy of the first comic book featuring Superman has sold for $317,200 in an Internet auction. The previous owner had bought it for less than a buck."
"About half of the first-edition printing of nearly 200 survive intact, including about 70 in libraries worldwide, said Leslie Overstreet, curator of natural history collections at Smithsonian Institution Libraries."
"An unknown number remain in private hands, several likely in South Carolina, where rich planters were among Catesby’s original fans. The Charleston Museum and Middleton Place have first-edition sets."
"Digitalising about 16,000 manuscripts and 5,000 rare books in different languages will be taken up by a hi-tech resource centre, which was opened in the Aligarh Muslim University on Monday."
The New York Antiquarian Book Fair will be at the Park Avenue Armory on April 3 - 5.
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"Rock musician and composer Bryce Dessner, of the band The National, will perform at the Rosenbach Museum & Library on Thursday, April 2 at 6:30 p.m. Dessner and a group of instrumentalists will share the results of a project called "Lincoln Shuffle' - commissioned by the Rosenbach for 21stCenturyAbe.org, an interactive website celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. "
"The National Palace Museum (NPM) received a donation of 8,238 thread-bound ancient Chinese books from the Hong Kong Chinese Cultural Association Thursday to mark the 84th anniversary of the death of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the Republic of China's founding father."
"Local historians will get their way at the public library — sort of."
"By shifting personnel around, the library director said she can keep the special collections room open. But library patrons can use the room only by appointment, and for only three hours one day a week."
"The University of St. Thomas' O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library Center and Center for Irish Studies will co-host their annual St. Patrick's Day Open House from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the library's Special Collections Reading Room..."
"Priceless scrolls that are believed to date back to the 15th century were unveiled in Aberdeen yesterday in celebration of a Jewish festival."
"The scrolls were the centrepieces at Aberdeen University’s annual event to celebrate the Festival of Purim..."
"David Smith has worked at the 42nd and 5th branch of the New York Public Library for 30 years, starting as a clerk and eventually landing at the General Research Division. Before becoming a librarian he was a bookstore clerk, Queens College student, cab driver and under the employ of Sufi Bakery and a butcher shop on Queens Blvd called Joe Salta's Meats."
"Books once owned by four medieval and Tudor queens went on display at the Bodleian Library in Oxford to celebrate World Book Day."
"Staff at the world-famous Oxford University library showed the books owned by St Margaret of Scotland, Queen Eleanor of Castile, Queen Catherine Parr and Queen Elizabeth I. "
"A soft-cover copy of the first Harry Potter book sold for $19,120 in a rare books auction in Dallas, the auction company said Sunday."
"Throughout the month, Ellis Library is featuring an exhibition on rare books and collections acquired for display in the main colonnade. The exhibit traces the history of evolutionary thought and philosophy from ancient to modern times. Works by Darwin, along with other influential scientists and philosophers including John Herschel and Charles Lyell are on display."
"Takejiro Hasegawa made a bundle in the late 19th and early 20th centuries selling exotic crêpe paper storybooks to European travellers in Japan. Always the completist, Frederick John Horniman bought the whole series between 1885 and 1889 and had the slim stories bound into a set of four volumes."
"The News & Observer of Raleigh reported Wednesday that the state fire marshal's office nearly shut down Wilson Library a year ago. But the regulators allowed the 80-year-old building to stay open with restrictions."
"The primary problems are the lack of exits and the need for a sprinkler system, all of which would cost nearly $12 million."
"'Johnson is one of the great writers of 18th-century England,' said Greg Clingham, professor of English at Bucknell and director of the Bucknell University Press."
"'He is also, along with Montaigne, Shakespeare, Rousseau, Goethe, Tolstoy and Borges, one of a handful of humanists in the European tradition whose writings in a variety of genres continue to challenge and extend our philosophical, moral and literary experiences,' he said."
"The archives also contained the personal papers of almost 800 prominent German authors, politicians and composers, including Konrad Adenauer, the first post-war chancellor of Germany. The manuscripts and letters of Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll and Jacques Offenbach, a 19th century cellist and opera composer, were stored at the archive. Weimar Republic politician Wilhelm Marx and German-Jewish composer Ferdinand Hiller were among the other notables whose collections have been buried under tons of concrete. 'These are fragile papers, that are now ground to dust,' Illner told the daily."
"Richard Prince, the American contemporary artist best known for his controversial plagiarism of magazine advertisements – notably his Marlboro cigarette cowboy series – has been assembling what New York book dealers describe as one of the most valuable and distinctive modern libraries in private hands. "
"A rare Superman comic is going on sale and is expected to make its lucky owner thousands and thousands of pounds! "
"The comic is so special because it's the first one to feature the famous flying hero. "
"The road to universal online information access hasn't been an easy one. In September 2005, the Authors Guild launched a lawsuit against Google for copyright infringement. In October, five major members of the Association of American Publishers-McGraw-Hill, Pearson Education, Penguin Group, John Wiley & Sons, and Simon & Schuster-filed another lawsuit that challenged Google's digitization and dissemination of copyrighted materials without permission. "
"Around 1,000 books were damaged in the main library building in Edinburgh, after the failure of a sprinkler pipe on the top storey caused 5,000 litres of water to run through all 12 floors. The potentially catastrophic incident late on Thursday evening forced 30 library staff to work through the night to clear standing water, and to spend the day beginning the task of drying out the affected volumes. "
"This is for the first time that the city will host a 10-day book fair organised by the National Book Trust, New Delhi. Books on various subjects including Punjabi literature, books for children and self-help books have been put on show in more than 100 stalls. "
"The assumed cost of the book is around $300 million. “'t was £30,000 pounds when it was found in Madras Observatory,' said A Vagishwari, consultant librarian in IIA. The IIA library is bringing out a detailed report about the book to observe the 400 years of the book and to celebrate International Year of Astronomy."
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