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Princeton University Library has received the entire collection of William H. Scheide, valued at $300 million. The collection includes incredible rare printed works and manuscripts. PU Professor Anthony Grafton calls the library “the richest collection anywhere of the first documents printed in 15th-century Europe.” (See the image below)
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Ferguson (MO) Public Library used its Twitter to feed to invite people to finish the sentence, “Because of a public library…” The resulting outpouring of love can be found using #becauseofapubliclibrary. Keep your hankies & retweeting fingers ready! (See the image on the left)
The Massachusetts Library System has a collection of Genre Overview Guides. Included are webinars, readings lists and other resources for librarians. Click the Genre Overview Webinars tab to select a genre. |
The Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery have digitized their entire collections and made them freely available online. The resource, called Open F|S, provides access to 40,000 works, with more than 90% of them in high-resolution and free of copyright restriction for non-commercial use. (See the image on the right)
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And now for a few fun photos!
[ Compiled by Jessica Adler ] |
