"A $30,000 grant has helped the University of Kansas Libraries digitize and deliver slices of history in the form of highly detailed, full-color maps that document 241 cities and towns in Kansas."

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"The British Library has scanned and published 1000 rare books and made them available through their app."

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"This past week the curators and archivists of the library provided a tour of the area behind the desk and into the vaults of the library. Not many people get that tour, but a colleague from the Deseret News and I accompanied curator John Murphy of the library staff and a security officer to go behind the scenes."

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"Envisioned by founder TN Shanbhag, who was honoured with the Padmashree for the pursuit of enlightened bookselling in India, the history of Strand is replete with interesting anecdotes and more importantly, with the zeal to make books accessible to all."

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"John Ehrman's book-collecting habits were more practical, but he carried on his father's generous tradition and in 1976 decided to disperse the entire Broxborne Library in his father's memory, distributing his gifts so as to fill gaps in important collections."

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"Denis Berry, a trustee of the Leary estate, said that the library paid $900,000 for the collection, some of which is being donated back to finance the processing of the material. The rest will pay the estate’s caretakers and then be divided among Leary’s surviving children and grandchildren. Ms. Berry said the estate had been looking for a buyer for the archive for years. "

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"Several digital collections have been produced by the Ohio Wesleyan Libraries with funding from a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation titled 'Five Colleges of Ohio Next Steps in the Next Generation Library '(NGL): Integrating Digital Collections into the Liberal Arts Curriculum.”

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"The digital library of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance’s Center for Media Studies was inaugurated during a ceremony at the center on Tuesday."

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"For the past four months, McGill University Library has had five book2net Spirits in operation - one in each of the following areas: Law, Music, Management, Humanities and Social Sciences, and Architecture and Arts."

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"However, West Roxbury's two premiere independent book sellers say their businesses are indeed sustainable. Although their reasons differ based on their store, the owners of Pazzo Books and Seek Books are connected in both believing that a knowledge of their respective markets is what will continue to drive them forward."

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"Exhibition Curator Dr Rim Turkmani said: 'This exhibition uncovers the never-before told story of the connections between the early Royal Society and contemporary and classical Arabic learning, and how they were used to solve some of the most pressing problems of the day.'"

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"The doors are locked and the lights are usually off where the Detroit Public Library houses Ernie Harwell's life passion."

"The beloved broadcaster built a collection of baseball memorabilia over his 68-year career worth $4 million and believed to be the second largest to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. "

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"A partial copy of a 500-year-old book considered one of the earliest and most lavishly illustrated works of the 15th century is now on sale for $35,000 at a rare book shop in Utah."

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"The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is an ambitious project with a vast cornucopia of programs and resources. It was founded as a library with space for 8 million books, but it also functions as an all-purpose cultural center, conference venue and planetarium, as well as a complex of art galleries and museums."

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"The Fresno County Library wants to record for posterity those once-in-a-lifetime days when you had a full head of hair and only one chin, ran for touchdowns, wore the coolest clothes, read books throughout the day and kept a sharp eye on that special someone among your peers."

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"The Texas A&M University Libraries have acquired a collection of rare books about treating animals and animal care, with some of the books nearly 500 years old.."

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"The new National Library under construction in Nay Pyi Taw should be completed by the end of the year, a spokesperson said last month."

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