- On 30 June at Brandeis, the New England Archivists are offering a summer program, "The Worth of a Book: A Look at Rare-Book Selection and Appraisal," featuring Ken Gloss, Jay Satterfield, and Maris Humphreys.
- From BibliOdyssey, a printer's handbook.
- Doug Stewart was on "All Things Considered" this week to discuss The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare.
- Google will scan 400,000 out-of-copyright books from the national library of Austria.
- More on James Goode's bookplate exhibit from the UVa magazine.
- The Boise Art Museum has an Audubon exhibit up through 29 August.
- There's a virtual tour of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill. [h/t The Bunburyist]
- Very exciting to see that the first AAS bicentennial publication is out: it's the diary of one of their early librarians, Christopher Columbus Baldwin. Available from AAS or Oak Knoll.
- In the Guardian, Lisa Jardine writes on the current exhibit at the National Gallery, "Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes and Discoveries."
- From last weekend's NYTimes, a piece on Jefferson's wine-tours in Europe.
- The entire archive of Royal Society publications is currently free for access through 30 July - some 68,000 articles! [h/t @BibliOdyssey]
- Also from the Guardian, a quiz on bookshops in literature.
Book Review
- Nick Bunker's Making Haste from Babylon; review by Russell Short in The Scotsman.
