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Category Archives: Bibliophile
Ian Frazier: Defending New York’s Public Libraries : The New Yorker
Ian Frazier: Defending New York’s Public Libraries : The New Yorker. he New York Public Library’s announcement that it is abandoning its Central Library Plan has been praised as a good and sensible thing, and indeed it is. The C.L.P. … Continue reading
Book Lovers Record Traces of 19th-Century Readers – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
A lament for a dead child, written by her mother in pencil on the endpaper of an 1843 copy of The Poetical Works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. A sewing needle, thread still attached, inserted in the back of an 1860 … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquarian, Archives, Bibliophile, Libravore, scholarship, Special Libraries
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Secret Libraries of New York City | Atlas Obscura
Lantern slide of the New York Public Library (via NYPL) As the debate continues over the renovation of the main branch of the New York Public Library — a design by Norman Foster that would radically overhaul the stacks and other features … Continue reading
Bookstores in Seattle Soar, and Embrace an Old Nemesis: Amazon.com – NYTimes.com
Bookstores in Seattle Soar, and Embrace an Old Nemesis: Amazon.com By KIRK JOHNSONAPRIL 11, 2014 Photo Abbie Barronian, left, and Ellie Graves browsed at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle. The store last year turned its first substantial profit in … Continue reading
Posted in Advocacy, Antiquarian, Bibliophile, Bookstores, Libravore
Tagged Amazon.com, Bookselling, Embrace, Independent bookstore, New York Times, publishers, Ryan Williams, Seattle, Washington
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Daily What?! The NYPL Has George Washington’s 1757 Recipe for Beer | Untapped Cities
We just came across this find at the New York Public Library Manuscripts and Archives Division. It’s George Washington’s “Recipe for Small Beer” from his 1757 notebook. Read more… Related articles Mine, mine, mine! Marking Medieval Manuscripts, Then and Now … Continue reading
Posted in Antiquarian, Archives, Bibliophile, Libravore, Public Libraries
Tagged British Library, George Washington, History, Manuscript, Music school, New York, Presidents, United States
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Vatican library plans to digitise 82,000 of its most valuable manuscripts – Telegraph
A 1,600-year-old manuscript featuring the poems of Virgil is among the collection being digitised by the Vatican Apostolic Library with the help of a Japanese IT firm An illustration of the Dante’s Divina Commedia realized by artist Sandro Botticelli in … Continue reading
This Guy Drew a Cat. You Won’t Believe What Happened 4 Centuries Later. – Wired Campus – Blogs – The Chronicle of Higher Education
Franz Helm’s illustrated manual on pyrotechnic weapons was around for more than four centuries before it went viral. When the German artillery expert wrote the manual, in the mid-1500s, he unwittingly created a piece of media ideally suited to the … Continue reading
The Central Library Plan Deserves an Educated Public Debate | Seth Baum
I know of no safe repository of the ultimate power of society but the people. And if we think them not enlightened enough, the remedy is not to take power from them, but to inform them by education. — Thomas … Continue reading
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Heather Varughese John on “Dr. X” and Medical Education–The Iago Galdston Lecture at NYAM–Tuesday, March 25 @ 6:00 pm
Please join us for the sixth event in the 2013–2014 History of Medicine lecture series, sponsored by the Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health at the New York Academy of Medicine: Dr. Heather Varughese John, Independent Scholar, … Continue reading
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