Photo courtesy Canary Promotions It is rare that Phillyist becomes so passionate about an event that we shift our tone from "Perhaps you'd like to check this out," to "GO! FOR THE LOVE OF GOD! GO NOW!" The Sendak in Spring Program at the Rosenbach Museum and Library this weekend is deserving of the upgrade in urgency. Continuing their year-round mission of passing on the love of literacy and ...

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Where the Wild Things Are (Phillyist)

With local libraries high on the list of targets in swingeing cuts to council budgets, many more branches could face closure unless they are run by volunteers As soon as you walk through the door, it becomes clear that Woodberry Down community library in Hackney, east London, reflects the literary tastes of its local community. The disproportionately large number of books with Caribbean and ...

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Cutbacks at councils could wipe libraries off the books (Guardian Unlimited)

CHATHAM — Tens of thousands of donated books are being sorted into more than 30 categories from Autobiographies to Zen for the Library of the Chathams annual Book Sale. The sale starts on Saturday, March 13, where, for the first...

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Library of the Chathams' annual Book Sale begins March 13 (Independent Press)

Some of Wales' oldest books saved from being sold

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Rare reads (BBC News)

Some of Wales' oldest books saved from being sold

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Rare reads (BBC News)

Only two pages of artist Erica Van Horn’s book “Folded Napkins” are on display at the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, but an online version of the exhibition allows guests to flip through the entire volume from anywhere with an Internet connection.

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Beinecke expands Web presence (Yale Daily News)

Nearly 150 early printed books in the Yale Law Library have bindings that incorporate visible pieces of medieval manuscript.

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Exhibit Showcases Medieval Fragments Found in Law Books (Yale University Office of Public Affairs)

REDDING -- A 100th birthday celebration for the Mark Twain Library in Redding will be held Saturday a century to the day after author Samuel Clemens donated 3,000 books and opened a small community library.

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Birthday bash to mark Twain library's 100th (Darien News-Review)

It's the beginning of the end-game for the The Google Books project -- an audacious attempt to create the most comprehensive library in the history of the world -- as the case moves again to a federal hearing in New York. The story is a complicated one, combining copyright law, anti-trust issues, plain old capitalist competition and the odd problem of orphan books, and Wired.com is here to help ...

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The Fight over the Google of All Libraries: An (Updated) Wired.com FAQ (Wired News)

Tamil Nadu chief minister M Karunanidhi on Monday donated about 1,000 rare books from his collection to the upcoming Anna centenary library.

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CM donates 1,000 rare books to new library (The Times of India)