Highlighting the collections, events, and activities of the Amistad Research Center. Monday, January 5, 2015. Happy New Year subscribers and faithful readers! The Amistad Research Center has a new blog! All of our old and new posts can be found at www. We hope you enjoy the interface and updated look! You will also be able to subscribe to our new blog via e-mail. Thank you for your patience and cooperation in making our new blog just as successful as our old.

Digging up interesting fragments among the leaves of new, used, and out-of-print books. Tuesday, November 05, 2013. Looking through old Bibles can sometimes reveal interesting items that have been tucked away among the leaves for decades or centuries, or one might find traces of provenance through written lines of ownership, along with recorded family history. Each time I thumbed through the old Bible, I seemed to find something new.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015. The Handsomest Book Store on Earth. The Handsomest Book Store on Earth. And that would be the St. Paul Book and Stationery Co. , at Fifth and St. What were the criteria for such a superlative? You could learn about the kinds of books the.

List of Canadian Bookplate Designers. Saturday, 11 April 2015. If you anything about the owners of these plates or their designers, please feel free to comment. Thursday, 9 April 2015.

College, University, Special Libraries Division of the Alabama Library Association. June 23, 2009 by CUS Publicity Chair. Such is the thesis proposed in Van Goghs Ohr, Paul Gauguin und der Pakt des Schweigens. By Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans reviewed in the Independent. Would make a nice title for a novel.

Informing you about libraries and information resources of all sorts! Monday, April 25, 2016. You just really have to read this story. It is an interview with the author of a book about librarians in Timbuktu who rescued thousands of medieval manuscripts from destruction by Al-Qaida. Tuesday, April 19, 2016. Tells about how the Waterford NY library was once a train station! Wednesday, March 09, 2016. Wednesday, March 02, 2016.

Monday, April 30, 2012. Hope to see you there. Friday, April 20, 2012. Jackson, New Hampshire public library is in a barn. Private collector gives road and street maps. Publishes public record information in the form of directories, guides to court records and more. They also have an informative blog.