- Rob LoPresti, the librarian-hero of the James Brubaker case, talks about his role in the investigation with the Western Front.
- Amherst College president Anthony Marx has been named the new president of the New York Public Library.
- In the WSJ, Allison Hoover Bartlett offers up her choices for the five best books about book collecting.
- An audio interview with Michael Winship about collecting books published by Ticknor and Fields.
- Robert Darnton has a short essay up at NYRB, "A Library Without Walls" (about the creation of a National Digital Library). It's a good piece, as Darnton's tend to be - I hope it actually starts something!
- Via John Overholt, excellent news that the sale catalog of (part of) Boswell's library has been digitized.
- From Sarah at Wynken de Worde, more thoughts on reading e-books.
- Over at Lux Mentis, Ian's got a video tour of his booth at the Seattle Antiquarian Book Fair for those of us not lucky enough to be in attendance.
- A look at a huge (~24,000 items) collection of bookseller labels. Very neat.
- Michael Russem passes along a fascinating video that made the rounds last week: "How Ink is Made."
- David Wootton's Galileo; review by Manjit Kumar in the Telegraph.
- Simon Winchester's Atlantic; review by Philip Hoare in the Telegraph.
- Bill Bryson's At Home; review by Dominique Browning in the NYTimes.
- Several new books on the Tea Party, including those by Kate Zernike and Jill Lepore; review by Alan Brinkley in the NYTimes.
