- Many congratulations to Richard Ovenden, Bodley's Librarian, appointed OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for services to libraries and archives.
- At the MHS blog, Rakashi Chand writes about "Strawberry Fun at the MHS."
- Biblio hosted an interesting roundtable discussion at Firsts: London on "The Evolving State of Internet Bookselling" - audio and a transcript are now available.
- Over at Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "A Cryptic Book Label Identified."
- On the Royal Society's blog, "Cash in the archive," about early Chinese printed money in the Society's collections.
- Rebecca Rego Barry posts on the FB&C blog about the range of Whitman exhibitions this summer. I commented to somebody this week that collecting a poster for each of the various Whitman bicentennial exhibitions would make for a pretty interesting little project ...
- Videos from the Grolier Club's 1 June Whitman symposium are also now available on their Vimeo channel.
- New York's Strand Bookstore has been designated a historic landmark, over the objections of the owners.
- Michelle Light has been named director of the Special Collections Directorate at the Library of Congress.
- From the Princeton Graphic Arts blog, a new index to the job work of the Pynson Press (1922–40).
- Katie Wolf writes for the NYPL blog "An Introduction to Mass Digitization and the Brown Brothers Collection."
- From the University of Chicago Library News page, "Discovering Chicago's Rare Books with Elizabeth Frengel."
- The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry has been acquired by the University of Iowa.
- New from Kari Kraus and the UMD Booklab, GotSort, a Python script that will give you a character count for your letterpress printing project. Pretty nifty!
Review
- Mark Purcell's The Country House Library; review by Jeremy Musson in The Art Newspaper.
Upcoming Auctions
- Livres Anciens et du XIXe Siècle at ALDE on 17 June.
- Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson at Doyle (online), ending 18 June.
- Livres et Manuscrits at Sotheby's Paris on 18 June.
- Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs at Lyon & Turnbull on 19 June.
- Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Early Bibles & The Ladwell Collection of Fine Bird Books: Part II at Dominic Winter on 19 June.
- Modern Literature & First Editions, Children's, Fine Press & Illustrated Books at Dominic Winter on 20 June.
- The Pride Sale at Swann Galleries on 20 June.
- Books, Maps & Manuscripts at Freeman's on 20 June.
