"STAUNTON – Treasured objects and artifacts held by the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum will be preserved for future generations with help from an award from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the top source of federal funding for the nation’s museums and libraries."
"When Sitka’s Sheldon Jackson College closed a year ago, so did the Stratton Library, which houses nearly 7,000 rare books and photographs."
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" A health movement led by Cincinnati’s German-Americans, first launched in 1848, became the stage for a fitness festival that was a show of Cincinnati’s own Olympics. UC’s Archives and Rare Books Library presents the photos and history of the 1909 Turner Festival that drew more than 50,000 fans to a special-built stadium for the event."
"CAIRO: Kuwait and Egypt have a long cultural history of cooperation, with both Arab countries recently attending and holding several joint cultural activities that reflected these strong ties."
"Bihar Governor R. L. Bhatia, in Patna on Saturday, during his visit to the state's historical Khuda Baksh Library, inaugurated the online catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and periodicals housed in the institute saying the facility was a huge step in the age of Internet and globalization."
"Turning the Pages is a unique piece of software designed to allow readers to look at rare books in a natural way. With Turning the Pages, users can read the books in their original format, almost exactly as they were intended to be read by their original audience."
"Efforts have been made to prevent water damage at the main headquarters, including installing water-detection sensors and moving rare documents off-site. But judging from the building's soggy history, these measures may not be enough. "
"Det Kongelige Bibliotek: The Danish Royal Library, or the Black Diamond as it's often called due to the shape of the building, is a modern facility inside and out. Featuring cutting edge design by Danish architects schmidt hammer lassen, it employs marble and glass to create a distinctive form on the outside. "
"Canada's national archives building is so prone to leaks that it sprang another one last month just as workers were cleaning up the mess from a flood days earlier."
"The showcase building near Parliament Hill was given a second soaking June 1 when a cold-water valve in a women's washroom failed, internal documents show."
"A new Dunedin Public Library exhibition, 'Charting the Peaceful Sea - Maps of the Pacific 1642-1846', looks back in time to explore the world as we knew it hundreds of years ago."
"The Duke University Libraries has launched a digital collection of about 5,000 photographs shot primarily in China between 1917 and 1932 by Sidney Gamble, grandson of Proctor and Gamble co-founder James Gamble. The searchable collection is online at library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/gamble/."
" A museum in Texas is offering the Dubuque's Carnegie-Stout Public Library 1.1 million dollars
The Fort Worth museum wants to buy a valuable collection from them, and the money would be just enough to help the library begin its renovation project."
"More than 750,000 pictures have been cataloged for historical preservation. "The Southwest Collection itself is 23 million leaves of manuscript materials relating to the history, culture and economy of this place. Our rare books component is the largest academic rare books library within a 96,000 square miles of this place," said Monte Monroe with the Southwest Collection."
"The biggest library of Hyderabad boasting of majestic architecture of the Nizam's times now greets its over 700 daily visitors with crumbling walls, dust-laden books, rickety chairs with seats hanging loose and book shelves with broken glass panes that make a mockery of the locks guarding them."
"Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet will be able to look at the university's 376-year-old copy of Galileo's Dialogue, for example, or to flip through books that once belonged to philosopher Bertrand Russell, including the notes he made in the margins. "
"THE micro-films of 1238 rare books from the library of the Kerala Sahitya Akademi were taken and sent to the US Congress library without the approval of the general council or the executive committee of the Akademi."
"The Mount Angel Abbey hosted its second annual Festival of Art and Wine Tasting on Saturday and raised more than $95,000 for the Abbey Library."
"The event gave visitors a chance to see some of the rarest books in in the world."
"The Steele archive - thousands of letters, journals, maps and photos - will be handed over in London today in a ceremony at Canada House presided over by Prince Edward. The Prince is the honorary Deputy Commissioner of the RCMP, and Steele was the prototype Mountie, having been the third man to enlist in the North-West Mounted Police."
"Anyone with access to a computer and the Internet will be able to look at the university's 376-year-old copy of Galileo's Dialogue, for example, or to flip through books that once belonged to philosopher Bertrand Russell, including the notes he made in the margins."
"For an undisclosed price, the college purchased a second edition of his groundbreaking 'De revolutionibus orbium coelestium' ("On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"), published in 1566, which made the then-heretical claim the sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the universe."
"'When I think about moving rare books from the bottom of the library, I weep,' he said. He pulled sandbag duty with a hulking Hawkeye football player."
"Each document has a dedicated, interactive kiosk that allows students and researchers to closely examine the library's treasures and to trace the origins of the country's founding ideas. For example, they might learn that the Bill of Rights was initially created as a diversion to prevent the anti-Federalists from rehashing the entire Constitution."
"There are 423 of them, including the first seven law books purchased by Benjamin Franklin for the library -- a 1734 set of "Statutes-at-Large," a collection of the laws of England -- and a book by British philosopher John Locke that declares that man has a right to "life, liberty and estate."
"Photographer, collector, author, publisher, archivist, and researcher Peter Palmquist assembled an astonishing collection of a quarter-million photographs during his lifetime, many of them documenting the history of Humboldt County. He was killed by a hit and run driver in January 2003 at the age of 66. "
"Microsoft has backed out of its plan to digitize tens of thousands of volumes at the Allen County Public Library, but the library is still likely to benefit from its brief involvement in the project."
"Cairo – The restoration laboratory at the Library of Alexandria's Centre of Manuscripts and Rare Books, in Egypt, is now considered one of the most modern sites in the world for recovery and preservation of antique documents. The organisation has already worked on over 2,000 rare books, 500 manuscripts and 120 maps."
"A Bible written in Old Norse nearly 400 years ago has been donated to Brigham Young University's library by a Provo resident."
"Thor Leifson, the honorary consul of Iceland emeritus, says the Bible was given to his family by a missionary who converted Leifson's relatives to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints four generations ago."
"At the Huntington, Koblik's colleagues describe him as a people person with a big smile and an ear for ideas and contrary opinions. With a jampacked calendar and a residence on the grounds -- where he lives with his wife, Kerstein, an urban planner -- he's the face of the institution. But he is never happier than when he's poking around in the bowels of the Munger Research Center, where tens of thousands of books and manuscripts reside on metal shelves in a compact storage system."
"Dockray-Miller, who teaches English literature at Lesley University in Cambridge, is publishing a paper that prints, for the first time, three prayers from a 122-page medieval manuscript secreted in the Boston Public Library's rare books collection."
"Far from gathering dust, Rauner Special Collections Library's massive collection—100,000 rare books, six and a half million unique manuscripts, the Dartmouth College archives, and a range of other materials—is being increasingly used by professors and students to inform and complement their teaching and research. More than 70 undergraduate classes are scheduled to visit Rauner this academic year, while five years ago there were only eight."
"Started by Vijay Bisht and Ajay Bisht in 1998, the shop has been catering to the DU students. But how did the collection begin? "
“'Students place orders for photocopying books from the rare books section of different libraries. But some forget to collect them or leave them behind once they are through with exams. That is how this collection grew,' says Bisht."
"With the support of Kirtas' Canadian reseller Ristech, McMaster
University will be using the Kirtas APT BookScan 2400RA to digitize rare,
out-of-print books. Once the books are digitized and processed, files will
be made available to the world on the Internet through the university
library and for sale as print-on-demand books on Lulu.com."
"LUNENBURG, N.S.–Richard Luckett knew he had a problem when a water pipe burst in his college room where 10,000 books – some dating back 400 years – lined the walls from one end to the other."
"The University of Texas library in Austin Texas has better than one million written works, and Google intends to convert them all into digital format and add them to the Google Library Project. Some of the university's collection includes some rare books and manuscripts from early Latin American history. "
"“In Jammu and Kashmir, we have a glorious history of 5000 years at our back. That is why the oldest manuscripts India presently possesses are a set of sixth century Buddhist texts, which were found buried in the hills of Kashmir 60 years ago. Our researchers have found rare ancient Sanskrit, Tibetan, Arabic and Persian treatises on number of subjects including ayurveda, diabetes, astrophysics, interpretation of dreams, surgical instruments, concepts of time and war techniques. We want to catalog and preserve all the precious subjects for the generations to come,” Zafar said."
"In a city where architectural monuments are readily torn down or gaudily renovated beyond recognition, Pashkov House, which reopened in October after an $80 million renovation, is one of the few restoration projects lauded by preservationists."
"Roy Mersky was a giant in his field who made the University of Texas law library one of the best in the nation, friends and colleagues said. Along the way, he taught worldwide, wrote prolifically and compiled a résumé more than 40 pages long. "
"WITH THE return of the Philadelphia Book Festival this weekend, and a grand expansion project for the Central Library in early stages, the corridors of the Free Library are abuzz with excitement. But beyond the library's mile-high stacks of journals, encyclopedias and novels, there are underappreciated treasures that even the most fervent book lovers don't know about. "
"The Yale Daily News (YDN) is the oldest college daily newspaper in the United States, and has been covering student life at Yale and in New Haven for 130 years. The Library has now digitized key periods from the YDN including January 1878 to June 1879, the first year of the YDN's publication; the period covering the two World Wars; the era of civil unrest, coeducation, and the Black Panther trials from 1967 to 1970; and the early years of President A. Bartlett Giamatti's administration from 1978 to 1981."
"'Audubon’s Birds of Americais the most important illustrated book ever published, I think most people would agree,' said Scott."
"The University of South Carolina was one of the first subscribers to the book in 1831, he said. Now, only 125 copies survive worldwide. "
"Edits such as this are captured in a new exhibit at the Library of Congress that allows visitors to literally zoom in on the specific words and phrases that formed the basis of the American republic. They can see different versions of historic documents and examine them line by line, using interactive, touch-activated computer screens that show the library's first high-definition scanned images of the drafts."
"Mitchel is among hundreds of librarians from Minnesota to England making digital versions of the most fragile of the books to be included in Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal that will eventually lead users to all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world. "
"AUSTIN, Texas -- The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin has acquired a rare Plantin Polyglot Bible, containing parallel texts in Hebrew, Greek, Syriac and Aramaic with translations and commentary in Latin."
"Mitchel, 24, is among hundreds of librarians worldwide who are making digital versions of the most fragile of the books to be included in Google Inc.'s Book Search, a portal that will eventually lead users to all of the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world."
"'We will have first edition books, signed books, collectibles and other kinds,' said Bob Russell, a book sale volunteer who will also be running the auction. 'Every collector has (their) specialty.'"
"It is two years since the library opened its doors to undergraduates. Young students now flock to its quiet spaces and pile up on benches and balconies in the high-vaulted front hall, sparking a backlash from the library’s more established residents."
"Casey’s research included the state archives where she found documents including a preserved letter from Dyer’s husband, William, pleading the court not to hang her. In the letter, Dyer’s husband, begged the court to consider her 'inconsiderate madness,' from which Casey took the title for her book of poems."
"Goldstein and dozens of others brought their could-be treasures to UNCC on Thursday for what the library dubbed the Rare Book Roadshow -- filching from the title of public television's popular antiques show. The judgments came from Sharpe, who spent 30 years as Duke University's curator of rare books."
"Artifacts like the Waldseemüller map (the first to include the name “America”), the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, the Gutenberg Bible and original volumes from Thomas Jefferson’s Library will be virtually at your fingertips. You’ll be able to flip through their pages, magnify sections of interest and access commentary from the Library’s top experts-all on the same touch screen,” the Library of Congress’ website informs the public."
"The institute will provide additional research to that done by the university's African American Studies Program, the university said in its announcement, advancing scholarly study and public understanding of race and black life in South Carolina and the Southeast as well as the United States and broader African Diaspora."
"The central Chabad-Lubavitch library in New York made 1,000 Passover Haggadahs, many of them rare, available on the Internet for browsing by the public. The Agudas Chasidei Chabad Library has one of the largest collections of the Passover orders of service in the world."
"The collection includes documents, rare books, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, silver, glass, ceramic ware and other artifacts relating to the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Asian experience in North America, and B.C. history."
"SRINAGAR: A 200-year-old manuscript of the holy quran was among hundreds of rare books and manuscripts donated by people to allama iqbal library of Kashmir university here, a spokesman said here on Wednesday."
"For decades, Emory has obtained the literary archives of high-profile donors like Danowski, who bequeathed his literary archives to Emory’s Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library (MARBL) in 2003. Of the donors include author and poet Alice Walker, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Salman Rushdie, world-renowned author and Emory distinguished writer-in-residence."
"The only known copy of the first Book of Hours printed in France, a tiny volume nearly 5 inches tall and 3 inches wide, has been acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum. Designed to fit into the palm of a woman’s hand, the book of prayers and devotional readings is illustrated by more than 40 woodcuts depicting religious figures and the life of Jesus."
"To better preserve the collection of more than 300,000 artifacts and 700,000 documents, maps and photographs, the facility has a new climate-controlled storage area."
"And for hardcore historians, a library and reading room containing 6,800 volumes, including 800 rare books, will be open by appointment. "
"Wilfrid Laurier University has bought its first rare manuscript, a sheepskin hymnal made 500 years ago by monks and nuns in northern Italy."
"Laurier's archives have hundreds of rare books, but this is the first manuscript."
"On Monday, March 31, Santa Clara University opened the doors of its newest building, the Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library. The 194,000-square-foot building merges the age-old components of liberal arts education with modern information technologies to form what is expected to become the intellectual heart of the Mission campus."
"ISLAMABAD • The National Library of Pakistan (NLP) has started digitising rare books and manuscripts with a view to preserving the national literary heritage for the next generations. "
"Diana Garrett, who serves on the Program Committee of Friends of the Princeton University Library, adopted a natural history book for her husband’s birthday, saying that she was particularly taken with an illustration of a black squirrel in the book. "
"The library housing manuscripts and other precious and rare books like the Holy Quran written by the last Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, was thrown open recently to the public. "
"The library housing manuscripts and other precious and rare books like the Holy Quran written by the last Mughal emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir, was thrown open recently to the public. "
"In addition, the W.H. Upjohn Rotunda, the entrance to WMU's main library, was named for Mary Meader's father, an early Upjohn Co. executive, in recognition of the Meaders' a $1 million leadership gift for the expansion and complete renovation of that facility in the early 1990s. The library's Meader Rare Books Room was named in honor of the Meaders' continued support of the University libraries."
"The very beginnings of the genealogy library were some rare books stored in a janitor’s closet at the Carnegie Library, she said. Eventually, the Odom Gift Committee was formed to allocate money from the estate of Ellen Ashby Payne Odom, a trustee of the library. Its purppose was to help build a genealogy library and purchase the Emmett Lucas collection, which is the “core” of the Odom Library. Godwin said the committee included Van Platter, Eva Rice, Merle Baker, Bert Harsh, Campbell Ansley, James Kirk, Jack Short, Bill McIntosh, Jestina Lewis, and Melody Jenkins. "
"A new $46.4 million, four-story East Asian Library opens today at the University of California-Berkeley, with 450,000 items in Chinese, Japanese and Korean under one roof for students, scholars and members of the public alike."
"The university says it is the first freestanding structure at a U.S. university built solely for East Asian collections."
"The Salem Athenaeum is one of those treasures you can drive or walk past every day, perhaps admiring the view, but never really exploring. Members of this venerable organization hope to change all that, bringing more and more people into one of Salem’s loveliest and most storied buildings."
"Hitting the books will be part of Erik Ohlander's summer plans thanks to a recent grant from the Purdue University Libraries. The Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) assistant professor of religious studies was awarded the Purdue University Library Scholars Grant, which will allow him to travel to conduct research for his current book project."
"At his suggestion, Her Majesty became a member of the mobile library and started borrowing books to read at her leisure. She had Norman elevated from a dish-washer to a page boy so that he could be near at hand. She had to keep her new hobby a secret from her staff as heads of state are not really expected to spend their time reading books. "
"Julian Blackwell, head of the Blackwell's bookstore chain and publishing company, is behind the gift to the vast, 400-year-old academic library. The money will go towards building a new exhibition hall where rare volumes will be put on rotating display for the public."
"Thor Leifson is the honorary consul of Iceland emeritus and said the Bible was given to his father, J. Victor Leifson, by the family of a missionary who converted Leifson's relatives to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when they lived in Iceland four generations ago. "
"Thor Leifson is the honorary consul of Iceland emeritus and said the Bible was given to his father, J. Victor Leifson, by the family of a missionary who converted Leifson's relatives to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints when they lived in Iceland four generations ago. "
"Only about 200 copies of the Victoria Regia were made using chromolithography in the mid-1800 s, and many collectors disassembled the books to showcase the illustrations, chief curator Chris Crosman said. A chromolithograph is an image that is produced using a series of colored plates, rather than being hand-drawn. "
"Cobwebbed and coated in a thick layer of dust, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Shelley are struggling to survive on the shelves of Chaitanya Library. Bankim Chandra and Rabindranath Tagore fare no better, musty and fragile from neglect. "
"Paper and paint: One way to depart from the traditional men's-club vibe of a paneled wood bookcase is to line the back and side walls with fabric, grass cloth or wallpaper, designer Jay Jeffers says. Designer Judson Rothschild silver-leafed a client's illuminated bookcase, which 'looks like a million dollars at night,' he says."
"The most haunting of all images for Colin St John Wilson, architect of many libraries, was that of Saint Jerome, the patron saint of scholars. In the well-known painting by Antonello da Messina, now in the National Gallery, the scholar-saint sits reading in the ideal conditions of a purpose-designed, self-contained, small study room..."
"Today, 100 of Chason's books -- valued at $45,000 -- have a new home at UNC Charlotte in the Mary & Harry L. Dalton Rare Book & Manuscript Reading Room. Along with works by Walt Whitman, Phillis Wheatley and Mark Twain, they'll be available to readers in a controlled setting.Robin Brabham, UNCC rare books librarian and archivist, says the school's collection has featured American literature since 1971, when Harry Dalton donated a first edition of Whitman's 'Leaves of Grass.'"
"The University of Rochester will soon share original papers from the pen of Abraham Lincoln online, through an innovative program that puts students in touch—literally—with history. "
"Through the program, letters and other Lincoln documents will be scanned and posted online with typed transcriptions for easier reading. For some documents, graduate students will write contextual essays and lesson plans for teachers to facilitate the use of the documents as learning tools in their classrooms. "
"JACKSON, Tenn. (BP)--The Ryan Center for Biblical Studies at Union University lost approximately 10 percent of its holdings when the EF-4 tornado swept through the Jackson, Tenn., campus Feb. 5."
"Now one of the world's oldest manuscripts of Enoch has found at least a temporary a home in Jeffersonville. The Remnant Trust -- a private collection of rare books and documents aimed at increasing public interest in culture-shaping works -- unveiled the Ethiopian-language manuscript this week at its East Court Avenue building."
"In 1912 Wilfrid Voynich, an American rare-book dealer, made the find of a lifetime in the library of a Jesuit college near Rome: a manuscript some 230 pages long, written in an unusual script and richly illustrated with bizarre images of plants, heavenly spheres and bathing women. "
"EKU Archives, a department of the EKU Libraries, is lined with books and file cabinets containing letters and other historical documents from politicians, sports figures, entertainers, scientists, historians and the “average” citizen. They include a personal letter from John F. Kennedy to Carl Perkins, pages from the handwritten draft of Noah Webster’s first dictionary of the American English language, and the oldest document in the collections – a papal document written in 1319 during the reign of Pope John XXII."
"The gem of the University of Illinois' world-renowned library -- its Rare Book & Manuscript Library -- is infested with mold and will be closed down for several months."
"This collection of 269 titles represented in nearly 600 volumes comprises the classic legal works of France from the 16th through the 19th centuries, and augments the Jacob Burns Law Library's noted French Collection. Customary law, civil law, royal ordonnances, all elucidated by the celebrated French jurisconsults, are found in the New York City Bar Library's rich gathering of French legal historical works."
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"Swem also happens to house the country’s second-largest collection of dog books, the largest belonging to the American Kennel Club. The Chapin and Horowitz Collection includes an edition of the first dog book written in English, classified as a rare book, meaning that fewer than 100 institutions have a copy. The collection is one of the primary locations in Swem shown to tourists who visit. "
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"Denmark's Royal Library is risking the wrath of Muslims with plans to display controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked violent protest throughout the Islamic world two years ago. "
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"Montana State University's Renne Library flooded for the second time in a week after a water pipe burst -- this time soaking reference books and causing thousands of dollars in damage."
"Fifty years ago next month, Dr. Lawrence Reynolds turned over to Alabama his most prized possession, a collection of 6,000 rare medical books, manuscripts and artifacts. "
"The nearly five million books in at UC's satellite library in Richmond contain valuable knowledge and history. However, scholars no longer have to search through 28 miles of shelves. "
"'This is huge. This is huge for scholarship and students,' says Jo Guldi, a UC doctoral candidate. "
"The New York Academy of Medicine Library is one of the largest medical libraries in the country collecting in public health and clinical medicine. This class is for anyone who is looking to learn how to use the Academy Library to access information regarding health and medicine. "
"Included are brief tours of the public areas of the Library and the extraordinary Malloch Rare Book Room, which contains over 35,000 rare books and manuscripts, including a 9th century manuscript copy of the oldest known cookbook..."
"Though noteworthy libraries dot the five boroughs, including the new Bronx Library Center and historic branches financed by Andrew Carnegie, the natural place to start is at the famous lions on Fifth Avenue, at what is officially the Humanities and Social Sciences Library."
"The only known copy of the first Book of Hours printed in France, a tiny volume nearly 5 inches tall and 3 inches wide, has been acquired by the Morgan Library & Museum. Designed to fit into the palm of a woman’s hand, the book of prayers and devotional readings is illustrated by more than 40 woodcuts depicting religious figures and the life of Jesus."
"Over 5,000 volumes in the historic Derry and Raphoe Diocesan Library are to be restored and their contents made available to the public. The unique University of Ulster conservation and outreach initiative - funded by a grant of £500,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund - will take three and a half years to complete."
"Locked away in rooms accessible only by swipe key card in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor are irreplaceable and invaluable rare documents and books that tell the social history of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario."
"Columbia University Libraries and Google, Inc. have signed an agreement to digitize a large number of the Libraries’ books in the public domain and make them available online. The project, which is one of several collaborations between Google and major research libraries, will evaluate and review hundreds of thousands of volumes from the Libraries’ collections over the next six years. "
"Locked away in rooms accessible only by swipe key card in the Leddy Library at the University of Windsor are irreplaceable and invaluable rare documents and books that tell the social history of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario."
"Belau National Museum on Tuesday opened its new research library at the newly refurbished building used by the Japanese government when it still administered Palau."
"'This is known as the first Christmas card,' said Eric White, a curator for the collection. "
"Sir Henry Cole, a British narrative painter, printed the first Christmas card in 1843. Before that, people simply wrote letters. "
"Ms. Catchpole recently combed through a number of the archives' special collections to prepare a history of the Christmas card in Canada."
"Her research reveals that commercial Christmas cards became established as an institution in Canada in the 1860s -- two decades after the first commercial card was printed in London, England."
"The final touches are being made to the new City of Fairfax Regional Library for its Jan. 26, 2008 official opening, and perhaps one word that best describes the interior of the red-brick building at the corner of North Street and Old Lee Highway is 'cavernous.'"
"NEWARK — It is difficult to say which is more surprising: that the Newark Public Library owns prints by Picasso and Rauschenberg, a page of the Gutenberg Bible and a 1493 handwritten tome known as the Nuremberg Chronicles, or that William J. Dane, a dapper, refreshingly irreverent art scholar from New Hampshire, has been tending to this astounding collection for six decades."
"The vast collection actually dates to the ninth century, when the abbey established a scriptorium, a large room in the monastery where scribes or copyists of the community created ornate manuscripts. St. Gallen became the reading room of Europe."
"Texts are preserved today in its fascinating library, the Stiftsbibliothek, constructed between 1758-67, and viewed by more than 100,000 visitors every year."