- Christela Guerra reports for the Boston Globe about current effort at the BPL to get a full inventory of the rare books and manuscripts in their collections.
- From John Garcia at JHIBlog, "The Other Samuel Johnson: African-American Labor in the Vicinity of the Early U.S. Book Trade."
- Over at The Pressbengel Project, making parchment out of salmon skin.
- Humanities magazine has an interview with library historian Wayne Wiegand.
- Maria Sibylla Merian is the featured subject at Echoes from the Vault.
- The NEH Impact Index is well worth spending some time with.
- Lisa Fagin Davis posts at Manuscript Road Trip about Otto Ege and the Lima (OH) Public Library.
- Jennifer Schuessler reports for the NYTimes on the James Baldwin archive, newly purchased by the Schomburg Center but some of which will remain closed to researchers for twenty more years.
- Scott Rosenberg writes for Backchannel on "How Google Book Search Got Lost."
- AAS has a podcast interview with Ezra Greenspan about his work on Frederick Douglass, editing Book History, and more.
- More on that archive of Sylvia Plath letters mentioned last month from Sylvia Plath Info and the Guardian.
- In the Irish Times, a story about a library theft that has inspired a new children's book.
- The British Library has announced a major expansion plan.
Reviews
- The Card Catalog, a new Library of Congress publication; review by Rebecca Rego Barry for the Fine Books Blog.
- Lyndal Roper's Martin Luther; review by Andrew Pettegree in the NYTimes.
- Brian Doyle's The Adventures of John Carson in Several Quarters of the World; review by Jenny Davidson in the NYTimes.
- Shelley DeWees' Not Just Jane; review by Caroline Franklin in the TLS.
Upcoming Auctions
- Images & Objects: Photographs & Photobooks at Swann on 20 April.
- Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Directories - Cartography at PBA Galleries on 20 April.
- The Maurice Neville Collection of Modern Literature (Part III) at Sotheby's New York on 24 April.
- Rare Books, Autographs & Maps at Doyle on 26 April [includes books deaccessioned from the College of New Rochelle].
- The Giancarlo Beltrame Library of Scientific Books (Part III) at Christie's London on 26 April.
- Printed & Manuscript Americana at Swann on 27 April.
- The Library of the Late Hubert Dingwall at Bloomsbury on 27 April.
