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  • World’s Largest Monastery Library Restored To Baroque Splendour

    “Hidden in the Austrian Alps some 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of Vienna, Admont’s Benedictine monastery, which was founded in 1074 and spreads over 270...
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  • Why the Shakespeare Folio is the World’s Worst Stolen Treasure

    “The 230 surviving First Folios are now the most minutely studied published works in history. The folio is unusual in that two centuries of records...
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  • Franz Kafka Papers in Israel

    “Scholars of the 20th-century writer Franz Kafka were in a state of suspense last night at the news that the remains of his estate, which...
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  • The Library In the New Age

    “Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient...
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  • Shakespeare Quartos To Be Digitized

    “The Shakespeare Quartos Archive , a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays—a joint project of the Folger Shakespeare...
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  • Precolonial African Manuscripts Get New Home In Timbuktu

    The manuscripts in Arabic and African languages cover almost every conceivable subject from history and medicine to law and human rights, from astronomy and philosophy...
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  • Author Interviews Go Online

    Daniel Menaker, who left his post as executive editor in chief of the Random House Publishing Group in June, is moving online in March to...
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  • A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

    The Curious Expeditions weblog issue of September 6 carries images of cathedrals of the book from all over the world. Click here to start.
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  • NIMH News Items: November 12, 2008

    The latest news release from the National Institute of Mental Health includes news items on research related to genomic clues to Alzheimer’s disease, cellular targets for...
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  • Social Work Podcasts

    Living Proof is the podcast series of the University at Buffalo School of Social Work. The purpose of this series is to engage practitioners and...
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