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December 28, 2009

Amador County Booksellers: Christine Volk and Shep Iiams

"Booksellers Christine Volk and Shep Iiams operate their home-based business high on a hill in Amador County – a site so remote that grazing horses and cattle outnumber their neighbors."

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John P. Gach: Bibliophile

"John P. Gach, a bibliophile and a nationally known bookseller who specialized in rare books devoted to the human sciences, died of a heart attack Dec. 20 at his Randallstown home. He was 63."

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December 19, 2009

Rare Books in New Delhi, India

"Off the bustling South Extension shopping area in New Delhi, a nondescript residence is home to a treasure trove of rare literature on the Indian subcontinent going back three centuries. Southex Books and Prints, rare book dealers, is as discreet as it gets."

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Rare Books at Bucknell University

"Just as a laser-scanning microscope assists biologists examining cell structure or a flume helps geologists measure characteristics of sediment flow, items in the special collections are part of the academic equipment to support teaching and classroom work and to enhance the learning experience at Bucknell, O'Neill noted."

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December 14, 2009

Banglaore University to Digitize Rare Books

"All rare books, publications, theses and dissertations of the varsity would be digitalised. A scanning centre will be established in collaboration with Digital Library of India under the ‘Million books digitalisation project’ of Carnegie Mellon University of United States."

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Miniature Gospel of Mark Determined to be Not Authentic

"The McCrone Group, Inc. today announced their microanalytical examination of an illustrated miniature manuscript (or codex) of the Gospel of Mark, termed the "Archaic Mark," helped identify the manuscript as a forgery."

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December 11, 2009

Rare Books for Downtown Trenton Renaissance

"The idea of the bookstore as a kind of urban clearinghouse is no coincidence. Mr. Maywar works for the Trenton Downtown Association and was recently appointed to the Trenton Public Library system’s board of directors. Classics has been a community networking engine that has found jobs and places to live for people in Trenton."

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Scotland's Oldest Book Goes on Display

"It may well be the country's oldest surviving book but it has taken almost 1,000 years for it to make its first proper public appearance."

"The Celtic Psalter will go on public display tomorrow when it forms part of a new exhibition – Masterpieces 1 – in the exhibition room at Edinburgh University's main library."

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December 07, 2009

Digitizing Books at Carnegie Mellon

"Carnegie Mellon so far has digitized the archives of the late Sen. John Heinz, Nobel Prize winners Herbert Simon and Clifford Shull, and the Posner Family Collection of Fine and Rare Books, collected by alumnus and neon sign entrepreneur Henry Posner Sr."


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Rare Book Shops in Korea

"South Korea, which once had a thriving rare and antiquarian book trade, is down to its last fifty rare book shops with more closings on the horizon."

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December 03, 2009

World Record Expected for "Anne of Green Gables"

"The vintage edition of the classic novel by P.E.I.-born author Lucy Maud Montgomery, first printed in April 1908 by the Boston publishing house L.C. Page, is expected to fetch up to $25,000 U.S. at Sotheby's Dec. 11 sale of rare books and manuscripts."

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North Carolina Workshop on Preserving Historical Artifacts

"Rare books, precious quilts, and historic documents are among the many materials in libraries, archives and museums that are too valuable to loose. Yet when disaster strikes, that sometimes happens."

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