In The News
A complete three-volume set of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings in first editions,…
Christ Church Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have become joint owners of an exceptionally rare…
Explore More Categories
New York—Swann Galleries’ online auction of signed performing arts memorabilia ran from January 10 through February 1. It was the first auction in Swann’s 70-year history that was online only, with no live bidding or previewing, and no printed catalogue. Just under 375 lots were offered, and 76…
January 31, 2011 -- Rare Revolutionary War-Era Map is David Rubenstein Gift to Library of Congress. Abel Buell Map First to Show “Stars and Stripes.”
One of 100 pieces of original groundbreaking ‘Little House’ artwork by famed illustrator Garth Williams
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR) Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives grant for "Revealing Texas Collections of Comedias…
PHILADELPHIA -- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded $490,700 to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries to create online cataloging records for 33,500 titles in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library Culture Class Collection. Administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources…
The London Rare Books School 2011 Institute of English Studies, University of London The London Rare Books School (LRBS) is a series of five-day, intensive courses on a variety of book-related subjects to be taught in and around Senate House, University of London.
DURHAM, N.C. - The Duke University Libraries have received a $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a new senior conservator position to help care for the Libraries’ extensive research collections. During the next three years, the Libraries will raise a matching $1…
The Morgan Library & Museum Presents Exhibition Focusing on the Controversial Shakespeare Portrait QuestionIncludes First U.S. Showing of Two Recently Identified Works: The "Cobbe Portrait" of Shakespeare and a Sixteenth-Century Painting of Shakespeare's Patron, the 3rd Earl of SouthamptonAlso…
