- Scott Casper has been named the eighth president of the American Antiquarian Society. Congratulations to both Scott and to AAS!
- Anthony Tedeschi surveys the (now digitized) medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
- Georgianna Ziegler writes for The Collation this week: "Early women buying books: the evidence."
- The National Library of Israel is digitizing more than 2,500 Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts and books. More from Smithsonian.
- From the Princeton Graphic Arts collection blog, "Famous Wood Engravings."
- Over at Manuscript Road Trip, "Otto Ege, St. Margaret, and Digital Fragmentology, Part 2."
- Richard Sheaff writes for the Ephemera Society's blog on "Wacky Victorian Imagery."
- From the Bodleian's Conveyor blog, "The Bodleian Quarterly Record, Vol. II (1917–19); and the Legacy of a Printing Press."
- Luke Henter writes for Past is Present about the AAS' Caribbeana Project.
- From Georgia Thurston for the Cambridge University Libraries special collections blog, "Nineteenth-century dialect writing."
- Also from the Bodleian, from their Archives and Manuscripts blog, Hannah Jordan on "The Library of St. Michael's College, Tenbury."
- Ian Maxted has updated his register of Mesoamerican codices and inscriptions over at Exeter Working Papers in Book History.
- Ed Redmond writes for the LC's Worlds Revealed blog on "18th-Century Maps of North America: Perception vs. Reality."
- The Middle Temple Library has posed another provenance mystery for us all to ponder.
- Tom Bentley writes for FB&C about the Shakespeare Society of America's challenges to maintain and make available its eclection of Shakespeareana.
- If you miss Aaron Pratt's very useful demo of camera setups and software useful for sharing special collections remotely, it's now up on the BSA's YouTube channel (along with many other of the interesting virtual events they've been sponsoring).
- Amber Kehoe and Heather Brown write for the Harry Ransom Center blog about conserving daguerreotypes.
- Up on the Grolier Club's Vimeo is "Medieval MSS at Social Distance," with Barbara Shailor, Lisa Light, Lisa Fagin Davis, Consuelo Dutschke, and William Stoneman.
- An amazing new biblio-offering from Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller: the manuscript catalogue of Claude Pierre Goujet's (1697–1767) 10,000-volume library.
Upcoming Auctions
- Beaux-Arts (Aristophil 29) at Druout on 16 June.
- Littérature Française du XXe Siècle (Aristophil 30) at Artcurial on 17 June.
- Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull on 17 June.
- Travel, Natural History, Americana & Sporting Books at Doyle on 17 June.
- Bibliothèque R. & B. L.: une décennie de ventes at Sotheby's on 17 June.
- Sciences: Archéologie, Savants et Philosophies (Aristophil 31) at Ader on 18 June.
- Books and Works on Paper at Forum Auctions on 18 June.
- Selections from the Library of Lorenzo H. Zambrano: Latin Americana, Science, and Literature at Christie's ends on 18 June.
- The Open Book: Fine Travel, Americana, Literature and History in Print and Manuscript at Christie's ends on 18 June.
- Publications of the Arthur H. Clark Company at PBA Galleries ends on 18 June.
- Littérature Les Années 1920–1930 (Aristophil 32) at Aguttes on 19 June.
