- Houghton Library is hiring a three-month Wikipedian-in-Residence.
- NARA announced this week that its facility in Anchorage, AK will be closed, and "storefront" facilities in Philadelphia and Fort Worth will be consolidated into larger facilities nearby, for a savings of $1.3 million per year.
- The NYPL has received a $6 million gift from a longtime patron.
- The Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge continues its appeal to donors for the £275,000 needed to acquire some 113 negatives of photographs taken by Scott during his 1911 expedition.
- The Junto is reprising last year's fun with a new Junto March Madness bracket, this time of books on early America written since 2000. Voting begins on Monday.
- Over at Notabilia, the book-label of Nicholson's Circulating Library of Cambridge.
- SAA president Danna Bell posts at Off the Record on what seems like a perennial question: "where do archivists belong?"
- Jasper Copping writes in The Telegraph about a new biography of detective Jerome Caminada, who may have been a (partial) inspiration for Sherlock Holmes.
- Now online, Folger Digital Texts.
Reviews
- Elizabeth Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction; review by Philip Hoare in The Telegraph.
- David Mikics' Slow Reading in a Digital Age; review by Leah Price in the TLS.
- Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews; reviews by Dwight Garner in the NYTimes, Jonathan Rosen in the WSJ, and Michael Dirda in the WaPo.
- Carol Berkin's Wondrous Beauty: The Life of Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte; review by Ellen McCarthy in the WaPo.
- Peter Stark's Astoria; review by Gerard Helferich in the WSJ.
