special collections

The Michigan State University Libraries, together with the Jewish Studies Program in MSU's College of Arts and Letters, are pleased to announce a major gift to the University: the Irwin T.
Book artist (and FB&C columnist) Richard Minsky announced today that his Third Exhibition of American Decorated Publishers' Bindings is being acquired by the
Good news from the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries this week
Over the next week or two, three auctions that might be off your radar should merit your attention.
Earlier this week the University of Nevada, Reno proposed $26 million in budget cuts, reductions that would lead to closure of some programs and departments including the Special Collections Departmen
Today George Washington University announced a gift of $5 million and a collection related to the history of Washington, D.C.
John le Carré, one of the world’s most celebrated authors, has offered his literary archive to Oxford’s Bodleian Library with the intention that it should become its permanent home.
Guest Blog by FB&C reader, Martin J. Murphy of Richmond, Virginia
Guest Blog by Roger Layton, Communications Manager, The Harold B. Lee Library at BYU on the A. Dean Larsen Book Collecting Conference March 17-18, 2011.
AUSTIN, Texas—The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, received $137,015 from the Council on Library and Information Resources' (CLIR)