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• New Fitzgerald poems come to light

  Tomorrow, the autograph and memorabilia dealer Nate D. Sanders will be selling at auction a most unusual piece of F. Scott Fitzgerald-iana: two handwritten poems, composed for the first and… Read more »

• Maintaining Mongolian Manuscripts: Mildew, Mismanagement, Megalomaniacal Monks

  Earlier this year we pointed to the online furor over the precarious status of extensive and irreplaceable archves in the Malian city of Timbuktu. Early second-hand reports from that city’s… Read more »

• Priceless West African manuscripts destroyed in Timbuktu; Also a human being or two

  In addition to destroying the city’s many Sufi shrines, militants first slept in, and then put fire to, an older library… Read more »

• Timothy Leary’s Nintendo Power Glove and Isaac Bashevis Singer’s old socks

  Turns out research libraries are collecting all kinds of things these days… Read more »

• A new plan for the NYPL?

  Writer Caleb Crain here pushes hard for compromise on the New York Public Library’s Central Library Plan (which has been covered previously on MobyLives here, here, and here). In Crain’s… Read more »

• Hundreds of writers and scholars rally to save the NYPL

  More than 750 writers, scholars, and librarians have signed a public letter asking New York Public Library president Anthony Marx to reconsider a $350 million plan to radically transform its… Read more »

• National Irish Library staking its Joyce claim early

  Interesting developments arise as James Joyce’s work comes into the public domain. In reaction to the publication of a collection of unpublished Joyce manuscripts by scholar Danis Rose, and Rose’s… Read more »

• Librarian discovers rare Paul Revere print

  A rare engraved print created by Paul Revere—he of the Revolutionary War “midnight ride” fame—has been found in a 19th century book at the Brown University library, according to this… Read more »

• Opponents of radical NYPL renovation coalesce

  A controversial $350 million transformation of the New York Public Library’s research library at 42nd (see the earlier MobyLives report) has a new opponent: In an Inside Higher Ed column,… 7 / Read more »

• One hundred years overdue

  A 500-year-old book, which has been missing from Archbishop Marsh’s Library in Dublin for more than a century, has been returned. The book was one of a 5 volume set… 2 / Read more »