- The Virtual Ephemera Fair runs through 8 p.m. EDT today (15 August). Coming up next on 1–2 September is the New York City Virtual Book and Ephemera Fair.
- The planned in-person New York fair for September has been cancelled, with a new planned date of April 2022.
- I missed this Atlas Obscura piece last November, looks like: Jeffrey Arlo Brown on "How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief."
- Over at Penn Today, a look at the Penn Libraries' participation in a multi-institution project to digitize materials documenting early medical education.
- A very happy tenth birthday to The Collation, the excellent Folger blog. They've got a neat "by the numbers" post to celebrate. And also from them this week "Book History, Manuscript Studies, and Navigating Special Collections During COVID-19."
- On the University of Glasgow archives and special collections blog, "The Foulis Brothers Book Receipts Project: how much can an invoice tell us?"
- The St Andrews special collections blog continues their series on the recent USTC conference on gender and the book trades.
- From the Columbia University rare books blog, "Two ancient papyrus fragments and their very modern reunion."
- Madison Rootenberg Schwartz is in the "Bright Young Booksellers" spotlight this week.
- The NYPL has acquired a collection of Russian zines.
- Newly published by Quaritch, Arthur Freeman's Historical Forgery in Romanophobe Britain: Robert Ware's Irish Fictions Revisited.
- CNBC will be airing an episode of "Super Heists" this week focusing on the 2004 Transylvania University Library thefts.
Upcoming Auctions
- LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History at Swann Galleries on 19 August.
- Apple and Steve Jobs at RR Auction on 19 August.
- Americana – Travel & Exploration – Space – World History – Cartography at PBA Galleries on 19 August.
- American Historical Ephemera & Photography at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers on 20 August.
