Click here to view a photos of "five architecturally impressive libraries". I was especially intrigued by the fact that Yale's rare book collection is housed in a building built with "marble sliced so... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Entries from July 2011
The Burns Library at Boston College has made a surprising discovery in their own Yeats archiveYeats' unpublished first play, Love and Death, written in 1884 when he was only 18 or 19 years of age. Th... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
UPDATE: These items have been recovered. Over the weekend of July 24/25 the following items were stolen from the premises of R.A. Gekoski Booksellers, 13 Bathurst Mews, London W2 2SB. Anyone with info... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Click here to read a Q & A with Robert Darnton, a cultural historian and the Director of Harvard University's library system, on the proposed Digital Public Library of America. Mr. Darnton made one co... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Barnstable-Hyannis Patch is featuring "10 Questions with Isaiah Thomas Books' Jim Visbeck". Click here to read! 10 Questions with Isaiah Thomas Books' Jim Visbeck [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
The Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa is very grateful to Michael Hollander for the recovery of 218 booksand for alerting the Library of the books' absence in the first place. Mic... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
An Open Letter to Dealers in the Collectibles Trades: Seeking Additional Information on John Gilkey
By Susan BenneOpen Letter to Dealers in the Collectibles Trades: Earlier this month convicted fraudster and thief John Charles Gilkey of California was arrested for a parole violation stemming from a series of inci... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Vladimir Radunsky is an author and illustrator of children's books, and has created illustrations for Mark Twain's Advice to Little Girls, a story originally published in The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Flavorwire has a great post entitled 10 Unconventional Bookstores For Your Browsing Pleasure. Browse away, the photos are great! (And my new mission is to find the 'speakeasy-style' bookstore in NYC!)... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]
Last weekend NPR aired a story on the Rare Book School; please click here to listen or read a transcript. A big shout out to the Rare Book School and Michael Suarez! Students Get Up Close and Personal... [more {visitor:mbr_blog_screenname}]