- There's a new Harvard Library policy governing access to digital reproductions of public domain works, and it's a good 'un. In part: "Harvard Library asserts no copyright over digital reproductions of works in its collections which are in the public domain, where those digital reproductions are made openly available on Harvard Library websites."
- Terry Belanger is doing the book world a great service by posting a series of dispatches from last week's National Colloquium on Library Special Collections ("Acknowledging the Past, Forging the Future") on ExLibris. See Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V (so far; more to come).
- ILAB has released a list of books believed stolen from the Cappuccini Library in Florence.
- The AAS has announced a conference and workshop, The Digital Antiquarian, to be held at the end of May and first week in June, 2015.
- The Thoreau Institute has purchased the Thoreau collection of bookseller Kevin Mac Donnell.
- Nate Pedersen talked to author Christine Jackson about her 2013 book John James LaForest Audubon: An English Perspective for the FB&C blog.
- A notebook from the 1910–1913 Scott expedition, containing notes by scientist George Murray Levick about photographs taken in 1911, was found last summer at the site of Scott's Terra Nova base camp.
- Over at I Love Typography, "The First Female Typographer."
- The New Haven Register profiles the team working on preserving and digitizing Yale's collection of papyri.
- The Soldiers National Museum in Gettysburg will close in November, and its collection of Civil War artifacts and other materials will be sold at auction.
- Eric Kwakkel has collected some excellent images of various ways parchment "goes bad," to complement equally excellent explanatory text.
- Brandon Butler writes about the new round of GSU copyright litigation in "Transformative Teaching after GSU."
- Ben Breen has a blog post at The Paris Review about his experience at RBS this summer.
- A deal was reached this week that will keep a Barnes & Noble open in the Bronx for at least the next two years.
- The Guardian highlights the new Cambridge University Library exhibition Private Lives of Print.
- Simon Beattie highlights a German pamphlet from 1930 advertising a "bibliotour" to the northeastern United States.
- Caroline Duroselle-Melish has been named the Andrew W. Mellow Curator of Early Modern Books and Prints at the Folger Shakespeare Library.
- Sean Quimby has been appointed Director of the Rare Book & Manuscript Library (RBML) at Columbia University.
Reviews
- Jill Lepore's The Secret History of Wonder Woman; reviews by Etelka Lehoczky for NPR, Dwight Garner in the NYTimes, Carol Tavris in the WSJ, and Laura Hudson in the LATimes.
- Charlie Lovett's First Impressions; review by B.L. Clark at The Exile Bibliophile.
- Lucy Worsley's The Art of the English Murder; review by Sara Paretsky in the NYTimes.
- Laura Auricchio's The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered; review by Jonathan Yardley in the WaPo.
- Roger Clarke's Ghosts: A Natural History; review by Patrick McGrath in the NYTimes.
- Peter Wright's The Copyright Wars; review by Louis Menand in The New Yorker.
- Mark Hallett's Reynolds: Portraiture in Action; review by Norma Clarke in the TLS.
- Andrew McConnell Stott's The Poet and the Vampyre; review by Maxwell Carter in the NYTimes.
