special collections

Philadelphia-Area Libraries to Create the Country’s Largest Regional Online Collection of Medieval Manuscripts
JANUARY 2016--The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) today announced that member library Lehigh University has been awarded a $499,086 grant on PACSCL’s behalf f
Basbanes Collection Acquired by Cushing Library at Texas A&M
University of Delaware Library Exhibition Commemorates the Centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising
Emory Names Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library for Alumnus Stuart Rose
Boston Public Library Posts Rare 15th-Century Scroll
LC Exhibition “The Bay Psalm Book and Early Moments in American Printing” Opens June 4
A new exhibition at the Library of Congress will tell the story of early printing in the American colonies, spanning 100 years, as printing evolved from a colonial necessity to the clarion of freed
Princeton University Library Acquires Philosopher Derrida’s Personal Library
The Princeton University Library has acquired the personal working library of philosopher Jacques Derrida, who died in 2004.
Columbia University Libraries RBML Acquires Frederick Fried Coney Island Collection
The Huntington Purchases Rare Pasteur, Austen Family, and “Wicked Ned” Collections
CA Antiquarian Book Fair Exhibition, Seminar & Event Schedule
OAKLAND, CA—The world’s pre-eminent celebration of the written and printed word returns to Northern California at a new venue in downtown Oakland.  The