http://www.rarebooknews.com/ News and commentary about rare books. Copyright 2012 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:33:22 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss "Initiating the process of digitisation a few weeks ago, officials have completed scanning of nearly 700 out of the total of 1,492 manuscripts. They aim at completing the process by the end of this year. " Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/digitizing_punj.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/digitizing_punj.php News about Libraries Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:33:22 -0500 "'QUOTH THE RAVEN, “Nevermore.'” "So says Edgar Allan Poe anyway. But what does “Nevermore” sound like with a Philly accent?" Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/edgar_allan_poe_2.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/edgar_allan_poe_2.php News about Libraries Fri, 27 Apr 2012 06:22:12 -0500 "University of Virginia law school librarians are trying to restore a collection of rare law books that were selected by Thomas Jefferson for the library." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/thomas_jefferso_1.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/thomas_jefferso_1.php News about Libraries Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:09:49 -0500 "UCR Libraries will celebrate the acquisition of its 3 millionth volume in a ceremony on April 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the lobby of the Tomás Rivera Library on the UC Riverside campus." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/3_millionth_boo.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/04/3_millionth_boo.php News about Libraries Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:03:45 -0500 "The American University in Cairo (AUC) has digitising its collections of rare Egyptian manuscripts in a step aiming to preserve centuries of Egyptian and Middle Eastern history." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/digitizing_rare_11.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/digitizing_rare_11.php News about Libraries Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:12:14 -0500 "The shopping spree was organized by Kelly Ouellette and Pat Ryan as part of Cash Mob Windsor, a grassroots consumer activist group dedicated to supporting merchants in the community." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/flash_mob_at_on.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/flash_mob_at_on.php News about Internet Bookselling Sat, 31 Mar 2012 12:10:02 -0500 "Unabashed bibliophiles, English literature buffs and lovers of Elizabethan tragicomedy unhurried in their campus meanderings should make a beeline for the Bancroft Library, where they’ll discover a display of rare printed works by William Shakespeare." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/shakespeare_on.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/shakespeare_on.php News about Great Writers Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:11:42 -0500 "On March 28, Binoche & Giquello, in association with Sotheby's, will offer some 190 lots featuring modern masters such as Bonnard, Braque, Chagall, Giacometti, Léger, Matisse, Miró, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec and Sonia and Robert Delaunay. The books come from the library... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_book_aucti_2.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_book_aucti_2.php News about Booksellers Sun, 18 Mar 2012 14:40:03 -0500 "Isolated on the seventh floor of Denison University's library is a book of Psalms dating from 1492, the year of Columbus' landing in the Americas, and a treatise on alchemy copied by a scribe more than a half century before... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_literary_w.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_literary_w.php News about Libraries Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:07:46 -0500 "A priceless 700-year-old Passover Haggadah will travel from the UK to New York after painstaking microscopic preservation work carried out by Manchester University." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/14th_centry_hag.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/14th_centry_hag.php News about Book Exhibits Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:05:20 -0500 "Andrew Alpern’s four-decade-long pursuit of writer and artist Edward Gorey's books and ephemera began during his frequent trips to the Gotham Book Mart across from his Midtown office, where he was working as an architect." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/edward_gorey_on.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/edward_gorey_on.php News about Book Exhibits Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:50:30 -0500 "Since 1992, Wilfrid de Freitas has brought together fellow antiquarian booksellers from Quebec and Ontario at Westmount’s Selwyn House School to show off a number of gems from their stock of rare books..." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/westmount_book.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/westmount_book.php News about Booksellers Sat, 10 Mar 2012 07:47:46 -0500 "In honor of Charles Dickens 200th birthday on Feb. 7, the Mortimer Rare Book Room has collected many original publications and put them on display." Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/charles_dickens.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/charles_dickens.php News about Great Writers Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:10:51 -0500 "“Written, Printed and Drawn: Rarities from Plymouth’s Past” is a special exhibition of the archival documents, rare books and maps from the collections of Pilgrim Hall Museum" Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_books_on_e_6.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_books_on_e_6.php News about Book Exhibits Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:06:13 -0500 "The Herrick District Library will host a workshop on rare book care and restoration led by restoration expert Kari Miller Fenwood" Read this article.... http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_book_resto.php http://www.rarebooknews.com/archives/2012/03/rare_book_resto.php News about Book Collectors Mon, 05 Mar 2012 07:02:14 -0500