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Links & Reviews 18 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
- Another shoe has dropped in the de Caro book theft case: Herbert Schauer, Executive Director of the Munich auction firm Zisska & Schauer, was arrested on 2 August in relation to the ongoing investig...
Big News! 18 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm
Links and reviews for this week are coming soon, but before I get to that, I have some exciting personal news to share: as of 1 September, I'm headed down to Charlottesville, VA to take up a new posit...
Links & Reviews 12 Aug 2013 | 01:07 am
Okay, one last gigantic links roundup and then with any luck at all I'll be back to a (slightly-more) regular schedule. I'm back at home now after the summer at Rare Book School, which was wonderful b...
Links & Reviews 30 Jun 2013 | 08:22 pm
Apologies for the radio silence and the once-again epic roundup post of links and reviews. I've been down the delightful Rare Book School rabbit-hole for the last couple weeks, far too busy to manage ...
Book Review: "The Bookman's Tale" 2 Jun 2013 | 06:14 pm
A book about antiquarian books and forgery, actually written by someone who knows about such things and can write about them coherently? Needless to say, I wasn't about to miss this one. Charlie Lovet...
Links & Reviews 2 Jun 2013 | 05:43 pm
Apologies for the rather lengthy post this week: I've been on the road just a bit (New York last weekend for some family time, then to Boston for a couple days, then to New York for Book Expo America ...
Links & Reviews 19 May 2013 | 08:01 pm
- From Small Notes, the blog of UVA's special collections library, David Whitesell reports a reunion between long-separated fragments of a Jefferson manuscript (a ~1769 draft of rules changes for the ...
Auction Report: April & May 13 May 2013 | 04:56 am
Recent and upcoming auction doings: - 10 April was a pretty amazing day for Christie's New York. The sale of the first part of the Collection of Arthur & Charlotte Vershbow on 10 April can only be de...
Links & Reviews 12 May 2013 | 05:01 pm
- NPR reported this week on the Field Museum's ongoing financial difficulties, which may result in further deaccessioning of rare books and museum collections. - Officials at the Vatican report that ...
Links & Reviews 6 May 2013 | 04:15 am
- Your must-read piece this week is John Overholt's "Five Theses on the Future of Special Collections," which will appear in a forthcoming issue of RBM but is available now via Harvard's OA DASH repos...
