"Since its official dedication in June, the Bolger Heritage Center at the Ridgewood Public Library has both expanded and consolidated the village's collection of local historical documents for easy access by residents and local historians."

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"Yale University's libraries are teaming with the National Library of Korea to transform 140 volumes of rare Korean works into digital formats."

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"Old and damaged gramophone recordings from Azerbaijan's Akhundzade National Library are being recorded onto disc to form an electronic database."

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"Historic treasures from twenty-one Northern California institutions will be on display at four downtown host locations – the California State Archives, the California State Library, the Center for Sacramento History, and the Sacramento Public Library."

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"She also owns 50,000 pieces of art, among them masterpieces by Goya and Velazquez, and a library of 18,000 rare books including a first edition of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote, the fate of which are controlled by a foundation."

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"Hope College is one of only 40 sites nationwide, and the only location in Michigan, chosen to host a National Endowment for the Humanities – supported traveling exhibition that highlights the creation and impact of the King James Bible in conjunction with the 1611 book’s 400th anniversary."

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"David Rubenstein, co-founder of Carlyle Group, will be giving $13.6 million to the Duke University library system to support its Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, the university announced."

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"1. . James Joyce"

"James Joyce's landmark modernist work Ulysses is now regarded as a masterpiece, but when he first touted it around there was a great deal of reluctance on behalf of publishers."

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"Utah book collector Brent Ashworth and Montana author Larry Pointer say the text contains the best evidence yet - with details only Cassidy could have known - that "Bandit Invincible" was not biography but autobiography, and that Phillips himself was the legendary outlaw."

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"Friends of the NIU Libraries will host a faculty wine tasting from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 1."

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"Curiously, among the faculty of some fifty-odd international authorities on rare books (and some of them are very odd indeed, myself not least among them), I am the only member who is also a rare bookseller. The vast majority of the faculty members are world-renowned scholars, rare book librarians, technical experts and so forth."

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"The book, part of the National Library's collection, is one of only two known examples in Australia of anthropodermic binding, a practice that is described in book collecting circles as not rare, but uncommon."

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"While the Rothfusses’ collection is wide-ranging, there’s an obvious emphasis on national park books and publications that reflects Ed’s 34-year career with the National Park Service. He was superintendent of Death Valley National Monument when he retired in 1994."

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"Dreweatts’ 250-year-old heritage marries well with Bloomsbury’s pre-eminent position in the market for rare books and works on paper and the two businesses will continue to capitalize on the numerous synergies underlying their respective operations."

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"Here is a book about handwriting by Palatino, a 16th-century calligrapher for whom a font is named. And here, a folio of Shakespeare's plays that sold for one English pound in 1632. And here, an exquisitely illustrated, calfskin-bound Horace collection that bankrupted its publisher in 1733."

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