The rumors traveled urgently from Haiti: Beyond all the death and wreckage, one of the nation's greatest exports -- its cultural scholarship -- was buried that awful afternoon in January.

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Digital archivists work to save rare books, historical documents (Miami Herald)

Reading 400 books in one year might seem like a lot, but PattiTjomsland is up for the task, which helps shape teenage readingchoices across the country.

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Local librarian joins national panel for teen reading (The Daily News)

My “Brazoria County History-Miscellaneous” file includes all manner of tidbits, including a column called “Keeping Up with the Joneses” that I wrote for The Facts more than 40 years ago about my daily life and young family.

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Sniffing out a rare book, dirty history (The Facts)

AMHERST – Are those old books you found in your grandmother’s attic rare first editions or just interesting? At 7 p.m.

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Old book expert to talk about finds (The Nashua Telegraph)

While at a museum recently, I stopped to admire a rare Parian pitcher. Manufactured in the 19th century by Vermont's United States Pottery Company (a forerunner of Bennington Potters), the piece was the only known version of their popular Niagara Falls pitcher done in color.

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Collector's Corner: Pottery Types (AuctionBytes)

Alibris announced it has joined online retailer Buy.com's retail marketplace. Buy.com customers now have direct access to 2.9 million new, hard-to-find, collectible, and used books in the Alibris catalog, with millions more books available later this year. Alibris marketplace includes a network of thousands of independent booksellers worldwide.

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Alibris to Offer New, Rare, and Used Books on Buy.com (AuctionBytes)

“The Book Remembers Everything: The Work of Erica Van Horn,” on display at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s mezzanine level, includes samples of Horn’s prints, book illustrations and calendars that feature the patterns found on the insides of envelopes.

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Artist finds inspiration in the mail (Yale Daily News)

Listening to the radio, I heard about a study claiming that some people have become suicidal after watching “Avatar,” likely in response to comparing the utopian vision of the film’s alien world to their own desperate lives.

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Awe-inspiring journey in a wasteland books passage in 'Eli' (Lake County News)

So many years.

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Theatre veterans mark rare reunion (The Sault Star)

Texas reached No.

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Bradley, No. 1 Texas beat Iowa State 90-83 (AP via Yahoo! Sports)