- The Virtual Ephemera Fair (summer edition) will be held on 14–15 August over on Getman's Virtual.
- Karin Wulf has been appointed the new Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian of the John Carter Brown Library. Congratulations!
- Cambridge University Library has acquired a new book from Gabriel Harvey's library for their collections.
- From the BL Medieval Manuscripts blog, "A mariner's handbook from the library of Sir Walter Raleigh."
- Over on the Peter Harrington blog, "Why do we use catalogues in the rare book world?"
- From Adam Smyth at TEXT!, "Book ownership, Paul McCartney and Napoleon Bonaparte."
- On the Morgan Library's blog, "Collecting Bibiena."
- From the N-YHS, "Art in Early Republic New York City."
- Over at Books and Borrowing, "Labouring-Class Borrowing at Innerpeffray Library, 1815–1833."
- On the St Andrews special collections blog, summer intern Megan Briers reports on her efforts to identify some items from the library sales of Rev. John Lee.
Upcoming Auction
- Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Vinyl Records & CDs at Dominic Winter Auctioneers on 11 August.
