"The gift, in addition to other donations, will be used to turn the sixth floor of Van Pelt — where the Rare Book and Manuscript Library is housed — into a Special Collections Center that creates a more functional and user-friendly environment, Assistant Director of Management Information Services and Communication for Penn Libraries Joseph Zucca said."

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"The prizes, which range from $250 to $2,500, are awarded to the winning bibliophiles -- and their school libraries -- for a collection of rare books."

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"While Thomas Boss, a rare-book dealer in Salem, doesn't specialize in modern American literature, he knows a thing or two about the antiquarian book business. Boss talked to The Salem News recently about what effect Salinger's death might have on first-edition copies of his works, and also discussed old books in general."

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"For the past few weeks, Mrs. Jaunzems has been classifying and labeling books, magazines, exhibit catalogues and professional journals by and about the artist and the period to set up the museum's first reference library."

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"Books on Mahatma Gandhi are an endangered lot in his own hermitage, the Sabarmati ashram in Ahmedabad. Over a hundred books on the Mahatma and some of his photographs were consigned to a fire last week after termites feasted on them."

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"First was The Book Mark. Located in Queens, New York, it was in walking distance of our family's home up until we moved when I was in sixth grade. It was owned by two spinster sisters named Rose and Esther and we referred to it as 'rose-n-esther's.'"

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"Nearly seven decades ago, a public library in a small provincial town in India surprised famous English writer William Somerset Maugham with its immense collection of books and quality of service rendered to a society yearning for knowledge."

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"The British Library has announced that users of Amazon's Kindle e-reader will be able to download more than 65,000 19th century classics for free this coming spring in a special format that will have the look of a genuine first edition."

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"Marking its 50th anniversary this year, the Lopez Memorial Museum remains the foremost private museum and historical research resource in the country, with an unparalleled collection of Philippine art, mostly of the Old and Modern Masters, and rare books, including Philippine incunabula, or books printed during the first 50 years of the invention of printing in the country in 1593."

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"Hosted via Microsoft's open source Codeplex project and based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Platform, the "virtual research environment" allows researchers to create and share content and also work on specific issues such as funding proposals, the organisations claim."

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"With more than 200 dealers from the U.S. and around the world, this biannual event is the largest and most prestigious commercial book fair that comes Southern California's way. It's a showcase of thousands of items of printed material -- books, manuscripts, maps -- spanning hundreds of years. Everything, pre-Gutenberg to post-Grisham, is on the block.'

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"The Eaton Collection at the University of California, Riverside acquired a rare, first American edition in January, becoming one of only 25 repositories in the world to own a copy. The purchase was made possible with a $10,000 grant from the B.H. Breslauer Foundation."

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"The World of the Book is a stunning book itself. Beautifully illustrated, it contains an illuminated manuscript created for the Medici family of Florence in 1479; masterpieces of early printing, such as Gutenberg’s Bible and Aldus Manutius’s Hypnerortomachia Poliphili; books recording the scientific discoveries of Copernicus, Galileo and Newton; works by the great botanical and natural history artists, the woodblock books of Japanese artist Hokusai; the productions of William Morris and the Kelmscott Press; literary greats from William Shakespeare to Virginia Woolf; children’s books, beat literature and pulp fiction, graphic novels, artists’ books and contemporary graphic design."

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"France's Lyon Library and Google have signed an agreement to scan more then 500,000 books in 10 years and put them online. The French government believes this will promote their cultural globally. But the French public is a little apprehensive."

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"Sponsored by the Southern California Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, the Los Angeles Book Fair is recognized as one of the world's premier antiquarian book exhibitions and sales. Over 200 pre-eminent members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America will feature books from five centuries of printing, as well as rare manuscripts that predate Gutenberg."

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"The amended Google Books settlement agreement (ASA) has not impressed the U.S. Department of Justice. A statement the organization issued late yesterday praised the idea of making rare books widely available, but also maintained that there are a number of problems with the proposed deal."

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"For himself, Warren will only keep a bright red poster, a Republican banner from the Spanish Civil War, which he plans to put in his living room. Many customers had inquired about buying the poster, but were rebuffed by the steep asking price - $10,000. That's a joke, because it's actually not for sale."

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"The traveling exhibit from the National Library of Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, examines how author J.K. Rowling used historical sources from Renaissance medicine to illuminate her wildly popular books."

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" Works on Islam and Buddhism are a big hit at stalls put up by publishers from South Asian countries at the World Book Fair here. Many avid book readers and scholars are happy to have spotted rare books that are not easily available in India."

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