"Community support and loyalty is what keeps Hicklebee's open, according to co-owner Valerie Lewis. After nearly 30 years, Lewis looks back at the milestones of community support: Loyal customers helped the store move from its previous location across the street, including an ambulance driver who hauled the books on a gurney; many of those same customers lined up outside of the store six months later, the morning after the Loma Prieta earthquake, to see how they could again help."

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"Now that the World Digital Library has been launched on the Internet, its creators want to add new partners and content from every country in the world."

"Inaugurated April 21 at the headquarters of the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, the World Digital Library (WDL) includes about 1,200 documents from more than two dozen libraries and institutions in 19 countries."

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"Tworare books dumped on a charity worker's doorstep could each fetch up to £1,000."

"Mary Davidson, the convenor of Christian Aid's annual book sale in Edinburgh, is used to finding bags of books left by anonymous donors outside her home."

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"Renowned for his love of print and an avid collector of rare books on the subject, Romano authored the Encyclopedia of Graphic Communications with his son Richard."

"The 'Champions in Print' Awards were launched in April 2008 to "honour individuals who have influenced and shaped the printing industry across the world".

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"Justin McDaniel, a UC Riverside associate professor of religious studies, finalized the deal in 2006: $68,000 for more than 12,000 Thai-language books from a private collector's five-story house-turned-library in Bangkok. "

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"'Crime and Punishment' may take the average reader several months to complete, but Britain’s first “book vending machine” can print you a copy in just nine minutes."

"A freshly-bound edition of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic – ordered by The Daily Telegraph – was one of the first tomes to drop out of the Espresso Book Machine when it opened for business for the first time yesterday."

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"60-year-old, Hakeem Gulam Jeelani, is known as the ‘museum man of Kashmir valley’ because he has devoted part of his house with ancient and attractive collection, which he has for many decades.
Hakeem collection at Jeelani’s Rawal Pora suburb residence is a showcase of ancient heritage."

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"The National Library of Australia has unveiled a special preview of its greatest treasures, which will be on show until 19 July."

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"An archive of the works of Scotland's national poet Edwin Morgan was being officially opened at the Scottish Poetry Library off the Royal Mile today."

"The collection includes rare books and pamphlets, as well as Morgan's old typewriter and a bottle of absinthe. And the poet himself was due to celebrate his 89th birthday by attending the event."

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"UA Libraries has announced the winners of the third annual Book Collector’s Contest, where students can showcase their personal collections of books with a common theme."

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"Department of Libraries and Research Thursday said that all the rare manuscripts, significant documents will be digitised soon. This was stated by the Deputy Director Libraries, Bashir Ahmad on the occasion of World Book Day."

"Ahmad told Rising Kashmir that the books will be soon available on the internet as this will also increase the reach of this treasure to outside world."

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"A librarian at Oxford's Bodleian Library has unearthed the earliest-known book dust jacket. Dating from 1830, the jacket wrapped a silk-covered gift book, Friendship's Offering."

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"So far, Yale has uploaded 27 items from collections unique to the University. The contribution includes 22 pencil drawings of Amistad slave ship prisoners, a primer in Arabic calligraphy and a journal kept by a member of Ferdinand Magellan’s 1522 circumnavigation of the globe. "

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"One hundred and seventy seven rare books went under the hammer today, as one of the most significant collections of antique literature was auctioned in Wellington."

"The collection included a page from one of the first books ever printed dating back to 1478."

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"For almost 40 years she has been buying, selling and researching rare books at their shop and she has been fascinated with tiny books. Bromer explained a large number of books in all genres have been printed in special sizes, which are no more than three inches tall."

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"Magus is one of those magical little bookshops where you find yourself getting holed up inside for hours without even noticing the time pass. The selection is incredible."

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"So far, the library's collections committee has discussed parting with three items, according to minutes from meetings: a Crehore piano, a series of large-scale Audubon prints, and a collection of Tichnor glass printing plates that were once used to make postcards. The library has had the Aububon prints since the mid-1800s, while the piano and glass plates were acquired in the last several years."

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" The World Digital Library, a free-of-charge and multilingual website offering access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe would be launched on Tuesday April 21, 2009 at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris."

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"Turns out the book, a family heirloom, was taken by a soldier during Hunter's Raid on VMI in 1864. The soldiers name was C.S. Gates. He thought he was getting revenge on VMI by stealing the book during the fiasco. He unknowingly stole it from Washington College or as it's now called Washington & Lee."

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"Biblio.com announced today a joint three-way agreement with Bibliopolis, LLC and Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) to provide a new e-commerce site for ABAA members and their books. Under the 4-year joint operating agreement, the new ABAA e-commerce site for its book dealers will feature Biblio.com's search engine and e-commerce technology. Berkeley-based Bibliopolis will be responsible for crafting the design and user interfaces for the site."

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"The new site will provide unrestricted, free access to manuscripts, maps, musical scores, rare books, films, architectural drawings sound recordings, prints and photographs in dozens of languages. Digital versions of such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation and Civil War photographs, as well as naturalization and immigration records of famous Americans will be included on the website."

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""'The (UI) has been digitizing books for 10 years, but only in the last three years have we done it on a really large scale,' said Betsy Kruger, the librarian who heads the UI's digitizing work.

"The UI effort is up to 15,000 volumes now."

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"The collection, which had been located in Hagerstown until about five years ago, includes 1,000 books, some more than 800 years old, that the Remnant Trust lends to universities across the country. It is focused on writings about human dignity and liberty and includes a 560-year-old page of a Gutenberg Bible from the first mass printing of books with movable type."

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"The exhibit honors gifts of rare books to the library by James R. and Mary M. Patton of Tucson, Ariz., and Snowmass, Colo. Besides 30 Joyce items, the exhibit will feature works by poets Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney and James Dickey—all gifts from the Pattons."

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"This extraordinary period of innovation in modern scenic design is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum entitled Creating the Modern Stage: Designs for Theater and Opera. On view from May 22 through August 16, 2009, the exhibition features over fifty drawings derived entirely from the Morgan’s holdings, principally from the collection formed by the celebrated American set designer Donald Oenslager (1902–1975). "

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"With completion of the new $28-million, 47,000-square-foot David Allan Hubbard Library, and the total renovation of the 1962-vintage McAlister Library, there is room for 1.4 million items - double the present capacity."

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"One of the most significant private collections of rare books in Australasia is about to go under the hammer in Wellington."

"The collection includes a page from one of the world's first printed books and manuscripts that are nearly 1,000 years old."

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"The school librarians say that although the books are no longer being checked out by students, they may still have value and interest to antique book collectors or others who love old books."

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"A rare book which belonged to Robert Burns has been discovered as volunteers packed up books from Burns Cottage Museum, Alloway."

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"The German Studies Department and the Mortimer Rare Book Room have teamed to present an exhibition of German cigarette card albums from the 1920s and 1930s, the first exhibition of its kind in the United States, in the Book Arts Gallery on the third floor of the Neilson Library."

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"The UCLA Library has acquired the literary papers of the Los Angeles novelist, short-story writer and screenwriter John Fante (1909–83). The collection contains his manuscripts for books, short stories and screenplays; personal letters; business records, including book contracts; and memorabilia."

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"The largest library in the world, which currently touts nearly 142 million items in its collections, will launch a Web site on April 21 featuring unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world."

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"By the look of her, you'd think Helen Simpson was a harmless little old lady, but beware: She spends her days surrounded by murderers, spies and con artists. Not to mention those even more dangerous characters: Amazon and Barnes & Noble."

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"A 110,000-square-foot building planned for Waddell Street will give librarians state-of-the art rooms to store and preserve UGA's special collections - an ever-expanding vault of rare books, manuscripts and films."

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"The peek at UMW's rare collection was one of dozens of stops Lecat and Christine Ortuno, both librarians from Frejus, made during their visit to Fredericksburg in the last week of March."

"Frejus and Fredericksburg have been sister cities for nearly 30 years, and plenty of residents--artists, archaeologists, teachers, students and elected officials--have exchanged visits."

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"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."

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"The architectural firm of McKim, Mead and White redesigned his home on New York’s Madison Avenue and 36th Street, now the Morgan Library and Museum, to accommodate his internationally celebrated and growing collection of books and medieval and Renaissance art. Morgan was also generous: In 1907 he purchased a major coin collection for the Metropolitan Museum, which he’d help establish, and built a wing at Hartford’s Wadsworth Athenaeum in memory of his father, Junius S. Morgan, an American-born London financier, who’d paved the way for his son’s successes."

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"Undoubtedly one of the most coveted of these lots is an excessively rare Congressional copy of Charles Wilkes’ record of his famed 1838-1842 South Seas expedition. The expedition was launched by the United States Congress to “announce America’s scientific coming of age” and marks the first U.S. governmental sponsorship of a large-scale scientific endeavour. In keeping with its mission, the expedition included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist. Specimens gathered by expedition scientists became the foundation for collections of the Smithsonian Institution and as a result of their work, significant contributions were made to the fields of geology, botany, conchology, anthropology, and linguistics."

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"The Recognition Fund, which is managed by Museum Galleries Scotland, awarded the money to 12 projects designed to increase the number of visitors to collections which have been recognised as being of national significance."

"Aberdeen University has been given £40,000 of funding for its project to promote seven museum collections and its rare books and archives."

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"The Smithsonian Institution Libraries has unveiled exhibitions at two Smithsonian museums on the National Mall. 'Picturing Words: The Power of Book Illustration' showcases some of the world’s greatest pieces of illustration from the Libraries’ collection of rare books and is on view until Jan. 4, 2010, at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Gallery at the National Museum of American History."

"The 'Art of African Exploration' will be on display until Aug. 16 in the Constitution Avenue Lobby of the National Museum of Natural History."

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"Students have relatively open access to the special collection, and can benefit from the extensive research opportunities within the 90,000 volumes of books and other manuscripts."

"'You can find just about anything and satisfy any interest here, and many classes are integrating projects to encourage student use of the department,'" Adams said.

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"UNESCO and 32 partner institutions will launch the World Digital Library, a Web site that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives from around the world, at UNESCO Headquarters on 21 April."

"The site will include manuscripts, maps, rare books, films, sound recordings, and prints and photographs. It will provide unrestricted public access, free of charge, to this material. "

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