- In the Yale Alumni Magazine, Judith Schiff has a short piece on Yale's early years and the "battle of the books" between Saybrook and New Haven when the college decided to relocate.
- Carla Hayden will be sworn in as Librarian of Congress on 14 September.
- The September Rare Book Monthly is up: features include a Bruce McKinney interview with Tom Lecky, now of Riverrun Books; Susan Halas talked to Ken Lopez and asked him to update his 1999 analysis of book collecting and the book trade; and (most interestingly!) Bruce McKinney's account of a recent personal acquisition of a 160-page manuscript volume containing records of an Ulster County, New York membership library from 1810 to 1823.
- The Library of Congress has added some 15,000 pages of scanned newspapers from New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC during the early national period.
- Pew released a new report on "book reading."
- The AAS fall public programs schedule is out: great lineup!
- At the Royal Society's Repository blog, Joanna Corden writes about how the Great Fire of London (350 years ago last week) affected the Society.
- David Mason has more in the Guardian about a 1993 theft from his shop in which a small archive of letters relating to an Ernest Hemingway boxing match was stolen.
- Karen Langley highlights the rare book collections of the State Library of Pennsylvania for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Reviews
- Matthew Kirschenbaum's Track Changes; review by Ben Allen at Public Books.
- Ross King's Mad Enchantment; review by Philip Kennicott in the WaPo.
- Nisi Shawl's Everfair; review by Elizabeth Hand in the WaPo.
- Sean Wilentz's The Politicians and the Egalitarians; review by Mickey Edwards in the LATimes.
- Keith Houston's The Book; review by Henry Hitchings in the WSJ.
- Anne Trubek's The History and Uncertain Future of Handwriting; review by Scott McLemee in Inside Higher Ed.
