"Manchester City Council's bid for £1.6m of lottery funding to pay for a new archive at Central Library has received initial support from the Heritage Lottery Fund."

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"An archive, including letters sent from the White House, Washington signed by President Roosevelt, has been acquired for the State by the National Library of Ireland, which paid €1,800 for the lot at Mealy’s auction of rare books on Tuesday."

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"Claims come after library hands out over 25,000 books to public in annual book giveaway; one scholar says he found an 1872 Darwin translation."

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"Auctioneer George F Mealy said the collection was one of the most important private Irish libraries ever to come to market and that Hanna had travelled throughout Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales to find the best examples of rare Irish books."

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"Three stories underground, in the University of Virginia's main library, 60 librarians, collectors, scholars and other bibliophiles divide into small groups. They're barely breathing as they lean over texts that have been around for centuries, like the 1497 Latin edition of Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools."

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"Anne Rosette Crelencia, the library's rare books and manuscripts section chief, said it had taken a special meeting with the budget minister to get the government to fork out a little money for the Rizal project that was mainly funded by Germany."

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"Rare books and maps, which date back to the 18th and 19th century, will be sold at unreserved prices at JP Humbert’s Auctioneers in Towcester."

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"Around 115 books are in a bad condition and have been partly eaten by termites. Many of these books are extremely rare and not available in the market."

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"Esteemed bibliophile Morton Netzorg, born to Thomasite parents, was in the business of buying warehouses of Filipiniana items and shipping them to a Detroit home base. Like other collectors and scholars, Rafa frequented Netzorg’s bookshop during visits to the United States."

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"Library staff are currently working on digitising the collection, a project which began in 2009. It will take another two years to finish, after which a digital copy of all the books will be passed on to the National Disaster Planning and Management Authority, which was formed in the wake of the floods, for safe keeping, says Bhatti."

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" A rare book collection and unique art will be unveiled at the Erotic Heritage Museum."

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"London's Royal Society is launching an exhibition today about the enormous influence that “Arabick” scientific knowledge had on giants of British science like Edmond Halley (of “Halley’s Comet” fame), Robert Boyle and many others."

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"A historic London reference library containing 50,000 books, including unique, centuries-old tomes relating to the history of the British Museum, is under threat of closure."

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"Heritage Images Online includes photographs and maps from the internationally recognised Sir George Grey Special Collections at Auckland Libraries. It also covers a wide range of topics including family history, portraits, architecture, advertising, photographers, maritime history, fashion, sports and the history of Auckland and New Zealand."

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"In early June Banks was going through the school's rare books vault when he found an original copy of an essay written by Cambridge History professor and classical scholar John Symonds. The pamphlet was printed in London in 1778."

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