- The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair is next weekend (and I look forward to seeing at least some of you there!). The ABAA has posted a few featured items that will be on offer.
- President Obama signed S. 2162 this week, providing for a (renewable) 10-year term for the Librarian of Congress.
- Harvard announced a major project this week: they are digitizing all known archival and manuscript materials in the Harvard Library relating to colonial North America. I'm looking forward to having a good dig-through of these soon!
- Following up on the #EEBOGate flurry last week, Carl Stahmer suggests some ways in which ESTC could play a role in "the development of a community supported corpus to replace EEBO."
- Dustin Kurtz visited Amazon's new brick-and-mortar store and told the tale for TNR.
- For POP's Mystery Monday, a (much-enhanced) look at the washed-out marginalia in Penn's copy of the First Folio.
- Michael Dirda has a good piece in the November/December issue of Humanities on what he sees at the perpetual doomsaying over the future of reading.
- There's a new blog devoted to Maps & Geography at the Library of Congress, Worlds Revealed.
- An Abraham Lincoln manuscript (a copy of the first paragraph of his second inaugural address which he wrote in a young boy's autograph book) sold for $2.2 million at Heritage Auctions on Wednesday.
- Barbara Basbanes Richter writes for the Fine Books Blog on a fabulous new letterpress printing program at RAW Art Works of Lynn, MA.
- Will Fenton writes for Slate on the challenge of preserving digital archives.
- Over at the Lost Art Press blog, a look at an 18th-century journeyman cabinetmaker's letter, hidden for decades within a cabinet now in the collections of the V&A.
- Megan Browndorf reflects on this summer's Library History Seminar XIII for the LHRT blog.
Reviews
- David Mitchell's Slade House; review by Jess Zimmerman in TNR.
- James Shapiro's The Year of Lear; review by Fintan O'Toole in the NYRB.
- Roberto Calasso's The Art of the Publisher; review by Nick Romeo in the CSM.
- Stacy Schiff's The Witches; review by Arifa Akbar in the Independent.
