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BOSTON - September 16, 2016 - Boston Public Library is loaning 36 medieval and early Renaissance manuscripts and printed books from its collections to three area cultural institutions, part of an ambitious collaborative project entitled Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections.
NEW YORK, September 15, 2016—The Museum of Modern Art announces the release of an extensive digital archive accessible to historians, students, artists, and anyone concerned with modern and contemporary art: a comprehensive account of the Museum's exhibitions from its founding, in 1929, to today.
LONDON—On 20 October 2016 Sotheby’s London will offer a previously undocumented and unpublished sketch-leaf for Ludwig van Beethoven’
Los Angeles, California - (September 15, 2016) - Julien’s Auctions, the world-record breaking auction house to the stars will present one of the world’s most extraordinary collections of autographed Hollywood photographs - Harold Lloyd’s Rogue’s Gallery - on Friday, September 23, 2016 in Los…
Carla D. Hayden, longtime chief executive of the Enoch Pratt Free Library system in Baltimore and a former president of the American Library Association, was sworn in as the 14th Librarian of Congress, for a renewable 10-year term, by Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts, Jr.
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I'm on the road this week and happened to spend last weekend in St. Paul where a lazy Sunday drive along Summit Avenue revealed this surprising bit of news:
Perhaps it is too obvious to say, but handwriting tugs at the heartstrings of book collectors. We look for and place value on signatures, inscriptions, and marginalia. So the idea that handwriting might someday be obsolete is unsettling. Put in context, however, bibliophiles will note some…
The Library of Congress has recently placed online the diaries, notebooks and address books of John J. Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I, and the diaries of George S. Patton, a tank commander in World War I and a U.S. Army general in World War II.…
The National Post Office of the Netherlands, "PostNL," has issued a special commemorative stamp sheet to celebrate 2016 as the "Year of the Book."
