Stolen Descartes letter found and returned
June 10th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks
A letter written by Rene Descartes which was stolen in the 19th century has been found, via Google, in a
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Cambridge to digitize rare books
June 8th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks
Cambridge University plans to digitize and put online some rare books from their collection. The first collections to be digitised
George Washington’s $300,000 library fine
April 19th, 2010 | by Sevaan Franks
Librarians in New York have discovered two missing books that were checked out by George Washington in 1789. The first
Preserving Africa’s written heritage
December 1st, 2009 | by Sevaan Franks
The BBC has posted an interesting story about the preservation of Africa’s old written materials at a new library in
The 7 most impressive libraries ever
June 17th, 2009 | by Sevaan Franks
The News in Print blog has compiled a list of the seven most impressive libraries from through history. Another early
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