- Read more about Book Review: "Torn from Their Bindings"
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With all the news about book theft of late (in Pittsburgh; and Dayton), and a nationally screened film about the 2004 robbery of Audubon's Birds of America
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Getty Research Institute Presents "Artists and Their Books/Books and Their Artists"
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Los Angeles - For most of us, books are a central part of daily life, but for artists they are also an essential medium for contemporary art - both as a tradition to be challenged and
National Sporting Library & Museum to Digitize its Rare Book Collection
Middleburg, Virginia - The National Sporting Library & Museum (NSLM) received a major grant from the Ohrstrom Foundation. The grant was made in May 2018 and will support the NSLM’s project to digitize its collections and share them online. The grant will make it possible for NSLM to purchase scanning equipment designed to take high-resolution images of pages of rare books. Once digital images have been made, they will be added to an online site where readers and researchers can access them from anywhere in the world.
- Read more about The Little Blue Books at 100
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Readers of our summer issue were treated to a history of the Little Blue Books, written by Steven Cox, the curator of special collections and university archives at Pittsburg State University (PSU) in Pittsburg, Kansas. A full-length biography of the Little Blue Books' complicated creator, Emanuel Haldeman-Julius, was also published this spring.
- Read more about New Rare Books Heist Film
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The rare book world is abuzz with the news that a film based on a real-life special collections robbery in 2004 is making its way to a national audience after a successful premiere at Sundance.
Greg Prickman Named Folger Librarian and Director of Collections
Washington, D.C. — Greg Prickman, head of Special Collections at the University of Iowa Libraries, has been named Eric Weinmann Librarian and Director of Collections at the Folger.
"I am so excited to be joining the Folger Shakespeare Library as the Eric Weinmann Librarian,” said Prickman. “The Folger is such a vibrant place, and I am thrilled to begin working with the staff. They have made the collections what they are today, and I look forward to contributing to the next chapter in the life of this magnificent library.”
- Read more about Bright Young Librarians: Matt Bird
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Our Bright Young Librarians series continues today with Matt Bird, Special Collections Manager at Vigo County Public Library in Terre Haute, Indiana:
- Read more about Women & Wilderness on Exhibit in Texas
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Scout's honor--here's an exhibit to see: OK, I'll Do It Myself: Narratives of Intrepid Women in the American Wilderness, Selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection. A long-time book collector (and native New Yorker), Schimmel has spent decades collecting women's wilderness experiences, from a bitter letter by Myra F. Eells, writing from the Oregon Territory in 1840, to Calamity Jane's studio photograph, to an extra-illustrated first edition of Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine.
Exhibition of New Work by Emerging Artists Responding to The Huntington's Collections to Open Nov. 18
San Marino, CA— An exhibition opening next week at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens will present a fresh, vibrant group of new works by seven artists responding to research they conducted in The Huntington’s vast collections o
UT Austin's Ransom Center Acquires Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin is now home to the Dean F. Echenberg War Poetry Collection.
