"Two years after Shaw’s visit, the Home Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici (Il-Gross), moved an Anti-Sedition Law in Parliament, which was approved, and on May 18, 1933, sent police to the residences of prominent Labour Party suppor­ters to look in all rooms for any seditious literature."

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"But Seibel’s influence extends far beyond Boston. He has been responsible for establishing whole libraries, including the library of a research institute connected to the world’s richest museum (the Getty); he has been on intimate and influential terms with collectors, scholars, diplomats, philosophers, and artists; and, through both his dealings at Ars Libri and his private collecting, he has pursued a mission to bridge the intellectual and aesthetic divide between the West and the cultures of Persia and Islam."

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"The stunning Elizabethan-styled construction, featuring glass printed shelves with carvings of birds, flowers and foliage, was designed by John Henry Chamberlain, in tribute to the 17th century Bard."

"Now it is set to be located at the top of the city’s new eye-catching £188 million Library of Birmingham, currently under construction."

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"The University Libraries Network of Karnataka (UNILINK), one of the biggest projects of the higher education department which has tasked Bangalore University (BU) with its implementation, will be launched in the first week of April."

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"Despite the economic downturn, book superstores, the ordering ease of Amazon.com and the surging popularity of e-books, independent bookstores in New Jersey have managed to stay alive."

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"More than 130 years after it was started, Robert Louis Stevenson’s abandoned first novel has been found, completed and poised to be published for the first time."

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" An archive of material pertaining to the famous counterculture cartoonist Robert Crumb – including a pair of original hand-drawn personal greeting cards and a 13-page sketchbook – sold for $16,950 at a multi-estate sale held March 4-6 by Philip Weiss Auctions."

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"Some of the college’s rarest volumes require such careful handling that researchers aren’t allowed to touch them at all. A staff member stands by to turn the pages. The volumes that receive this attention aren’t items like the library’s mid-fourteenth-century Book of Hours or its 1555 edition of Boccaccio’s 'Decameron.' They’re issues of 'Camera Work', the magazine edited by Alfred Stieglitz between 1903 and 1917, and the staff member who turns the pages does so with bare hands."

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"Never before viewed by the public, stored behind lock and key in Stanford's deep archives, all 40 books, manuscripts and illustrations relate to this founding era of 18th-century American history. Several books are unique 'association copies,' books owned and signed by famous Americans."

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"The Gallery Bookstore Ltd. on busy Belmont Avenue in Lakeview was established in 1927 and was incorporated by Fiedler in 1989, when he bought it. Its niche is rare and vintage books, which run the gamut from art and design to mystery and horror."

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"Housed in 20 different buildings, Columbia possesses more than 10 million volumes. These items have been acquired from all regions of the globe in order to create one of the most comprehensive catalogues in the world."

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"If you think rare books and ancient manuscripts are confined to museums, vaults and hollywood movies, you're mistaken. The Remnant Trust in Winona Lake has a growing collection of rare books and historical artifacts."

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