"To kick off the summer traveling season, the Lilly Library at Indiana University's Bloomington campus opened an exhibition Tuesday featuring collections relating to early automobiles and motor cars. 'Are We There Yet? The Age of the Automobile' showcases vintage catalogs, books and materials featuring topics ranging from luxury roadsters to the first Indianapolis 500."

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"A unique and a precious library housing highly significant literature and manuscripts of medieval period, remains in a shambles due to authorities' apathy, in Uttar Pradesh."

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"The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, has awarded more than 50 research fellowships for 2009-10. These fellowships support research projects in the humanities that require substantial use of the Center's collections of manuscripts, rare books, film, photography, art and performing arts materials."

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"National Library of Pakistan (NLP) has finalized arrangements to open two new community libraries in sectors I -10 and G-11 to provide reading more facilities to the residents of the capital."

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"Four years after a multimillion-dollar public library renovation project was defeated by public referendum, library trustees are resurrecting the idea of bringing Amesbury's aging library system into the 21st century."

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"Once the exhibit closes, Jutzi will be back at work with the rare books, preparing them for scholars coming to study at the Huntington. Rothschild will be involved with some of the many events celebrating Johnson around the world, including a speaking engagement at a symposium at Pembroke College in England, where Johnson was a student."

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"Islamabad: National Library of Pakistan (NLP) has digitised over 300 rare books and manuscripts so far with a view to preserving the national literary heritage for the next generations."

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"The venture seeks to promote intercultural understanding while narrowing the digital divide between nations, and its collection of rare books, maps, musical scores and recordings, photographs, and other cultural materials makes it a pretty amazing resource."

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"Some faculty members at the Jesuit-run University of San Francisco are up in arms over economic contingency plans that include selling some of the university’s rare books collection and auctioning off pieces of valuable art owned by the school, the Foghorn, USF’s official student newspaper reports."

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"An enormous number of books are housed here - some are rare books dating back to the 1500’s - while the rest cover a wide variety of reference material. the public can search the books in person, and the curators here say they are sometimes available through inter library loan. The plant specimens themselves are searchable using a computer, and contain highly detailed photographs that can be used for comparison to living specimens."

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"A London bookstore has installed a new machine that will print an entire book on demand in the time it takes to brew a cup of coffee."

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"Dozens of people return overdue books to the Boston Public Library every day. Probably only one person, however, has ever walked in holding a book that had been missing for 80 years. Please salute Julie Geissler, the New Hampshire resident who stunned library staff members by showing up unannounced one day in 2001 to return a rare first-edition copy of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species,” one of the most famous books ever written."

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"As Annette Kolling-Buckley unpacked books at the new location of Columbia Books, a fluffy, big-pawed cat named Fred who is as substantial as a bag of baking potatoes, sat atop boxes. One could argue he was trying to keep them from being moved again."

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"With numerous bookstores closing in the midst of fierce economic contractions, Aronovitz said rare books can often be recession proof, particularly those in high demand, such as signed copies of an author's best work. The collection featured in Abe.com books are all Hugo and Nebula award winners, the highest ranking titles in modern science fiction and fantasy."

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"Jay is a collector of rare books and arcana, ephemera and lore. He has thousands of items cataloged on his personal computer, but isn’t sure of the extent of his collection, most of which resides in his Los Angeles home. In general, he explains, he’s interested not in the mainstream figures of magic but those who live on the fringes."

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"To mark the 150th anniversary of Doyle’s birth, dozens of scholars from around the world gathered at Houghton Library May 7-9 for the symposium, titled 'Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: A Sesquicentennial Assessment,' which featured speakers including Andrew Lycett, Dan Posnansky, Leslie Klinger, and Giles Constable, as well as the screening of several Sherlock Holmes films, presented by the Harvard Film Archive."

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"Walk into Firestone, meander to the right short of the place where the librarians keep important stuff for adults, and one will stumble across the gem that is the Cotsen Children's Library. The rare books, shelved in a three-floor glass case to the right of the entrance, were donated to the University in 1997 by Lloyd E. Cotsen '50 - former chairman and CEO of Neutrogena."

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"The rare book collection devoted to Willa Cather and other revered authors was recently dedicated at an Allegany College of Maryland event that also celebrated the life of Janet Cook, the late professor of English who started the effort."

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"Beeghly Library, a circular building at Heidelberg College in Tiffin, Ohio. Built in 1967, the circular shape of the three story, open stacks Beeghly Library makes it a distinct presence on Heidelberg's campus and in Tiffin. The library was named to honor a gift from Leon A. Beeghly, an alumnus."

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"Now catalogued in its entirety, within the collection was an unpublished manuscript by William H. McMasters, a memoir of his experiences working as a publicist for Charles Ponzi, the fraudster extraordinaire whose claim to Most Notorious Con Artist in History was recently ceded to Bernard L. Madoff in a no-contest episode of Our Gifted Grifters, a too-much-reality TV show pilot not picked up by the networks due to the recent glut of such characters; they threatened."

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"Two shabby looking volumes which were recently found in a skip in France have turned out to belong to Lord Byron and Shelley. The rare books, believed to belong to the Canadian collector, Beccles Willson, who settled in France and died there in 1947, were spotted in the skip in the south of France."

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"A specialist in the Chinese capital is working on restoring ancient images of a different kind -- words, not pictures. Sixty-year-old Du Weisheng works as a researcher at the rare book division of China's National Library in Beijing. Over the years, he's been racing against time to rescue ancient tomes and scripts that have been damaged by water, moulding from improper storage and chewed on by rats."

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"Ask 27-year-old Jonathan Smalter what he's most proud of in his bookstore, and he'll probably lead you to the rare book room and point to a first-edition copy of The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger."

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"Biblio, Inc., which operates Biblio.com, today announced the launch of its new UK website, Biblio.co.uk. While Biblio.com is one of the largest used book marketplaces in the world and carries books from independent booksellers in over 40 countries, Biblio.co.uk will be primarily focused on serving European customers who are looking for second hand and antiquarian books specifically from the UK or other parts of Europe. "

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"Mr. Volkmann inherited from his mother in 1969 a collection of rare books about the history of California, including fine press books, many of which were printed by the Grabhorn Press. He bought rare books for the next 39 years and finally held a complete Zamorano 80 collection, considered the 80 most important or rare books about California."

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"Sixty-year-old Du Weisheng likes to call himself a doctor, whose time-ravaged patients are frail, often crumble at a touch and sometimes get chewed by rats."

"Du preserves and restores books and scripts that are hundreds of years old at China's National Library, performing a job that is fast becoming as rare as the tomes he rescues."

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