"The letters by Charles Dickens that will join The Huntington’s holdings were written from about 1838 to 1869 and are addressed to a variety of individuals, including Hablot Knight Browne (Dickens’ best-known illustrator, affectionately called “Phiz”), John Leech (another of Dickens’ illustrators), Robert Lytton (a poet, and son of novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton), Charles Ollier (a publisher of earlier writers, including the poets Keats and Shelley) and Mary Nichols (an American author who was published by Dickens in his weekly periodical, All the Year Round). "

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"As the Africana Collections Curator for the Yale Library, Woodson has traveled from Johannesburg to Timbuktu in search of new materials — ranging from books to microfilm to “ephemera” like T-shirts and posters — to add to the Library’s 13 million volumes."

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"The Delhi Public Library (DPL) has turned 60 and will showcase in an exhibition India’s growth trajectory through rare books, newspapers and gramophone records over the past six decades."

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"More than 3,700 rare medical books from the Rush University Medical Center will join the library collection of the University of Chicago as part of the school's dedication to the history of medicine."

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"The University of Pennsylvania is home to papers documenting the literary career and life of rabbi-turned-author Chaim (KHYM') Potok."

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"There’s only one place you can leaf through a copy of William Shakespeare’s “First Folio” from 1623 and also touch President John Adams’ personal copy of “Common Sense” - and do it for free."

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"Despite enjoying a lot of funds and working under the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB), Diyal Singh Trust Library (DSTL) has still not started digitalising its collection of rare books, periodicals and manuscripts. However, due to its importance in history and its vast collection of books, the DSTL is tremendously popular among local as well as foreign visitors."

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" Indiana University's Lilly Library in Bloomington will host an exhibition of rare books and manuscripts to mark its 50th anniversary."

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"In terms of rare books, Irving Leif says he's a millionaire. In terms of real dollars, the soon-to-be-evicted Jersey City man is more like a 14-dollar-aire."

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"An effective way to preserve old and fragile books is to digitize them. The National Library has started the process of digitization since 1999, but according to a library employee, the process is moving at snail’s pace. He said that while funding is not the issue, the absence of a clear-cut policy is."

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"The annual Book Fair organised by the Association of Book Publishers of Greece opens Friday in Klafthmonos Square in downtown Athens, and will run for 10 days, through Sunday, January 24."

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"The Syrian Public Publishing Authority recently published a book by a local heritage researcher, Khaled Tabah, that tracks the Arab manuscript from its early rise, until its spread in Levant countries."

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"A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook the town of Eureka in Northern Californa late Saturday afternoon. Damage is widespread."

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"Lynne Thomas, Associate Professor and Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections, University Libraries, explores an exhibition of the important evolutionary ages of this popular art and literature form. Thomas’ chronological and sociological examination begins with the Golden Age (Superman, Captain America) when the earliest superheroes reflected a deep and abiding faith in the goodness of humanity, and continues through the Silver Age (Spiderman, The Fantastic Four) when the heroes were not perfect which encouraged readers to identify with their characters."

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"In November 2008, Frank, acting on a recommendation of an appraiser who looked over the Rush collection a few years earlier, put in a call to the University of Chicago. Would they be interested in purchasing the collection?"

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"LAHORE: The renovation of the Punjab Public Library (PPL), which includes the repairing and preservation of old books and database has been halted due to a shortage of funds, Daily Times has learnt."

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"Thanks to this intensive silaturahmi, not only did Gus Dur keep in touch with so many real people and their actual problems around the country, or bring great charismatic clerics such as Abdullah Faqih of Langitan to national attention, but he also gave due recognition and introduced local leaders of remote villages previously unknown, people like Shaikh Mas’ud of Cilacap — a collector of rare books written by classical Indonesian Muslim scholars."

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"An archaeological museum will house diverse collections and rare books reflecting the heritage of Pakistan in general, and the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan in particular. Epochs of primary interest for the museum include the early piedmont culture of Balochistan (particularly Mehargarh - circa 8500 - 1700 BC)."

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"The extensive collection of Strawberry Hill house’s former resident Horace Walpole is to go on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum. "

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"Not a single one of our clients is a cultural nincompoop, pretentious about their books, nor elitist. They are, to the contrary, a group of men and women who have, for the most part, earned every penny of their wealth through hard work, and, having achieved financial success, decided to collect the books that were meaningful to them as a child, or, as an adult, captured their imagination and interest."

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"Old books and manuscripts received considerable attention from collectors at the 20th Doha International Book Fair, the manager of Antiquariat Inlibiris pavilion said yesterday. "

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"It took unconventional and even idiosyncratic steps to make the Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center the highly touted, prominent tourist destination it is today, according to the man who heads up the center."

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"Bloomsbury Auctions, which has been leading the auction world into no- and low-reserve sales, realized twice its estimate for the recent auction of the de Orbe Novo Collection of early books related to the New World 1492-1625, with complete sell-through of all eight-one lots for a total of $3,489,000, or $43,000 per lot."

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"University Libraries in Karnataka will be connected through 'UNI-LINK' network for which a Task Force under Bangalore University Vice Chancellor Dr N Prabhu Dev's Chairmanship had been formed."

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"Cheri Holden, owner of Watershed Books, said she'd like to organize the rare books in her store and to encourage more people to volunteer for her resolutions."

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