"Colophons will be swollen and printer slugs tumescent when Bruce Whiteman, Head Librarian at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library of U.C.L.A. in Los Angeles, presents an address to The Colophon Club of San Francisco on October 13, 2009..."

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"Two valuable books belonging to the Carsons were donated recently to Historic Carson House. The treasured artifacts were given by sisters Margaret Williams and Marianne Odom. They are direct descendants of Col. John Carson, who built the home more than 200 years ago."

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"What has been called “the most mysterious manuscript in the world” is held within the vaults of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Its name – the Voynich Manuscript."

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"A guy who wears bifocals understands what aging is all about, so when he printed a classic treatise on the woes and benefits of becoming a codger, he also printed the first large-print edition in this hemisphere."

"And now it is the University of Illinois' 11 millionth acquisition."

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"Dr. O’Bryan has donated his collection of magazines and books on World War II and Winston Churchill to the University of South Carolina. It will be on display in the Thomas Cooper library through October 26."

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"The living memory of the Portuguese-American experience has a new home at UMass Dartmouth, where on Friday university officials welcomed community leaders and elected officials to celebrate the grand opening of the Ferreira-Mendes Portuguese-American Archives."

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"Penn's libraries are busy making thousands of hard-to-find books and publications available online in a multifaceted effort intended to make rare literature more available to academics at Penn and around the world."

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"Antiquarian Ken Sanders is a "bibliodick" on the trail of rare book thief John Gilkey in the riveting nonfiction book, The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession by Allison Hoover Bartlett."

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"Rob Hansen, owner of Bookshelf Etc. in Ocean City, said the popularity of his summer-operated business varies from week to week. He said if he was entirely dependent on the store he would be in trouble, but he invests in property during the off season as an extra source of income."

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"The sale of those and more than 100 other Bibles in Meadows's collection is "a very big deal," says Mark Dimunation, chief of the rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress. "

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"Outside of a Dog is a "bibliomemoir" by a former Warwick University lecturer turned rare book dealer and broadcaster (most recently in his Lost, Stolen or Shredded Radio 4 series) - but it is more accessible than that sounds."

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"A Hangeul copy of an ancient Chinese book that contains the notes of the Joseon Kingdom (1392-1910) scholar Kim Si-seup has been discovered."

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"An executive order issued by Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday hopes to ensure that come Oct. 1, Michigan's state library collections will be safe."

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"Google’s battle with Amazon.com, Microsoft and Yahoo came to Capitol Hill on Thursday as the head of the U.S. copyright office backed claims that Google violates author copyright issues with its online library."

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"Items on display range from a 1502 printing of Ovid's Metamorphoses to a first edition of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn."

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"I was inside Imperial Fine Books, owned and run by Bibi Mohamed, one of very few high-end book dealers of Indian origin in the world of fine books. And certainly the only Indian woman in the rare book business in New York, possibly the country."

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"Houghton is considered Harvard's primary rare book and manuscript library, boasting collections of about half a million rare books and an estimated 10 million manuscripts, Morris said in a telephone interview. It probably is best known for collections of 19th-century American literature, including the personal papers of New England authors such as Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson and Ralph Waldo Emerson..."

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"Eleven Winnipeg book dealers, as well as one each from Montreal and Regina, will be exhibiting and selling collectible and rare books, as well as comics and regular used books."

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"Joining Princeton University and the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, APU becomes only the third institution of higher education to own original Dead Sea Scroll fragments. These earliest known texts of the Hebrew Bible, dating back to roughly 150 B.C., were discovered in the caves of Qumran, east of Jerusalem, between 1947-56."

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"Rare-book dealer and academic Gekoski 'howled, hooted and imprecated' when his ex-wife refused to hand over his precious bookshelf and the 1,000 or so tomes it contained. But with the passing of his ire came a feeling of liberation, a realisation that what he had read since childhood had shaped him – and remained with him."

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"The historic Maple Street Book Shop in Uptown has plans to move and open a new store this month since the closing of the Maple Street Children's Book Shop next door."

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