- Rebecca Rego Barry summarized this week's ILAB webinar about the effects of COVID-19 on the antiquarian bookselling community for the FB&C blog.
- Brian Cassidy talked to the AbeBooks "Behind the Bookshelves" podcast this week.
- Over on the Beinecke's blog, Michael Morand offers "Some Early Notes on Teaching Online with Special Collections in a Time of Quarantine."
- From Past is Present, Jeff Cooper on "Hidden Histories and the Digitization of New England's Earliest Manuscript Church Records."
- Don't miss the excellent "At Home with Books" catalog put out this week by Heather O'Donnell, Ben Kinmont, Simon Beattie, and Justin Croft.
- Devon Eastland writes about the "long s" for the Swann blog.
- Two new stories this week about the opening of Emily Hale's letters from T.S. Eliot at Princeton: James Parker writes for the Atlantic on "The Secret Cruelty of T.S. Eliot," and Princeton's Daniel Linke writes about the robust security (literal metal bands around the boxes!) used to keep the letters secure until they could be released.
- From Matt Kirschenbaum, "Bibliologistics: The Nature of Books Now, or a Memorable Fancy."
- Mike Widener has a post on the Yale Law Library's rare books blog about "Epidemics and Quarantine in 17th-century Rome."
- Hannah Alpert-Adams has a Medium post about "What the Humanities do in a Crisis."
- Over on the library blog for Catholic University, Henry Granville Widener has a post about Brazilian incunabula.
- From the BL's Medieval Manuscripts blog, "Illuminating the Worms Bible."
- From Jay Moschella, "Notes From a Lost Renaissance Library."
- More useful resource compilations, this one on #VastEarlyAmerica from the Omohundro Institute.
- Over on the Met's "In Circulation" blog, Mindell Dubansky offers some "Reminiscences of a Bookbinder."
- From Lisa Fagin Davis, "Fragmentology Under Quarantine." (Also, Lisa's "Breakfast Paleography" threads on Twitter are great, too!)
- At Medieval Manuscripts Provenance, "A Collector's Mark Re-Interpreted."
- From the Middle Temple Library blog, another fascinating provenance mystery for us to mull over.
- Over on the Princeton Graphic Arts collection blog, "Museum of the History of the Recorded Word."
- Elizabeth DeBold writes for The Collation on "All the Purposes of a Library: A Piece of Blue Ephemera."
Upcoming Auctions (online)
- Fine Literature featuring a Collection of Rudyard Kipling at Doyle on 15 April.
- Fine Books and Manuscripts at Potter & Potter on 18 April.
