![]() ![]() In Signature, Lorraine Berry on " The Sensational Allure of Lost Books in Fiction and Nonfiction." Katherine Skiba profiles Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden for the Chicago Tribune. ![]() Hoaxter Clifford Irving of Autobiography of Howard Hughes fame died, aged 87. Dan Cohen has a post on " The Significance of the Twitter Archive at the Library of Congress." The Library of Congress has updated their policy on the Twitter archive. Try your hand at the Guardian Christmas quiz and their big books quiz of the year. At NPR, Victoria Schwab says " Just Trust Me: In Praise of Strange Books." Amelia Hugill-Fontanel's " Mind Your Thorns & Eths," about a visit to bookshops and letterpress outfits in Iceland, has given me a few more things to add to my list of places to go when I'm there in March! Police in Norwich are seeking information about the theft of several books from a delivery van. James' wonderfully creepy "Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You, My Lad," accompanied by Simon Callow's reading of the story. ![]() The Guardian is running a fun end-of-year short stories podcast series the first features Penelope Lively introducing M.R. Caleb Crain's " Notes, 2017" is a fascinating commonplace book of the year. The National Library of Scotland has announced the availability of the Peter Sharratt Collection. The Library of Congress highlights some of the maps scanned and made available this year. The Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased a 14th-century illuminated Hebrew Bible prior to its scheduled sale at Sotheby's. From Past is Present, a post by Kathleen Major about her work on attempting to identify the authors of anonymous diaries in the AAS collections. A bit more on the Philips Library from the Salem News, and the petition mentioned in my last post continues to garner signatures, with 2,988 as of this morning. I hope you've all had a delightful holiday season, and here comes 2018, ready or not. ![]()
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