"ISLAMABAD: The federal capital will have its first book museum soon. The ‘National Book Museum’ will be built in the premises of the NBF, NBF Managing-Director Mazharul Islam announced at the second National Book Day function."

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"CHENNAI: In a bid to preserve its vast collection of rare and erstwhile books more than a century old, the Connemara Public Library is all set to digitise its old books section in the next one month and place it online for users to access it from anywhere."

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"Hosted at the Felder Avenue museum -- the only museum in the world dedicated to the Fitzgerald's -- the celebration included food, fun, a silent auction, a room filled with surprises, musical entertainment, and of course, the time-honored tradition of guests arriving in 1920s-era attire."

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"The exhibit is titled 'Our Only Hope Was in Kentucky': The Civil War Sesquicentennial and uses rare books, manuscripts, photos and other items from the UK Libraries collection. It will run through October."

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"Andrea Klein, of South Akron, operates the shop with her father, Frank Klein, of Highland Square. Clarence Klein, Frank’s father, opened the store in 1948 in a Cuyahoga Falls basement."

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"Taiwan's first appraisal of rare books will take place in Taipei as the highlight of a reading festival featuring old and secondhand publications, the event organizer said Saturday."

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"The three-month photographic exhibit, which also will include a companion exhibit of manuscript material, will be the Huntington's first real visual photographic and print history of the Civil War, Jutzi said."

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"NYU's Fales Library recently acquired 21,000 books on food and cooking, and now has one of the largest collections of culinary texts in the country."

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"In the Joutras Gallery, visitors can follow the remarkably diverse paths of the earliest plant explorers, including Theophrastus, Carolus Clusius, and Françios Andre Michaux."

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"A collection of more than 900 rare and old animal books, with an emphasis on horses and farriery, has been bought by the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University."

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"Area residents can meet Thomas Jefferson and see books and texts written or printed between 1519 and 1829 during a special open house Sunday afternoon at the Cambridge City Public Library."

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"More than 70 exhibitors from across the Midwest region and Canada brought merchandise to display and sell to the public, said Ray Walsh, the host of the show and owner of Curious Book Shop, 307 E. Grand River Ave. "

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For those of you who have always wanted to search for book lice in
Prague's off-limits Baroque monastery library: You now can.

It's the world's largest indoor photo. You can zoom in to read many of
the book spines.

The story is here, with a link to the zoom-able panorama photo.