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British Library Buys Ancient Gospel For $14.3 Million

AP | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Religious Artifacts, St. Cuthbert Gospel, Durham Cathedral, Gospel of John, British Library, Lynne Brindley, Religion News

LONDON -- The British Library has paid 9 million pounds (US$14.3 million) to acquire the St. Cuthbert Gospel, a remarkably well-preserved survivor of ...

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British Library, Google In Deal To Digitize Books

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Google, Digitizing Books, British Library, Google Digitizing Books, Google British Library, Kristian Jensen, Google Books, Ebooks, Books News

LONDON — A treatise on a stuffed hippopotamus, an 18th-century English primer for Danish sailors and a description of the first engine-driven su...

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Science Fiction, But Not As You Know It

Telegraph | Morwenna Ferrier | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Gwyneth Jones, HG Wells, Margaret Atwood, Out of This World: Science Fiction but Not as You Know It, Science Fiction, British Library, George Orwell, Books News

The literary genre of science fiction isn't terribly accessible. Widely seen as an extension of man's anxiety over the future, sci-fi is usually affil...

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British Library Purchases Poet’s 40,000 eMails

Wired Campus | Marc Parry | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Literary Archives, Poets, Wendy Cope, Rachel Foss, Emails, The Independent, British Library, Books News

E-mails don’t have the inky charisma of handwritten manuscripts, but they’re more and more a part of literary archives. For instance, when the Bri...

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Want To Read The Original 'Beowulf' Manuscript? There's An App For That

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: British Library Treasures App, Iphone, iPhone App, Ipad App, Treasures App Iphone, Treasures, British Library, Treasures App, Ipad, British Library Treasures, Healthy Living News
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The British Library unveiled its "Treasures" app this week for the iPhone and Android, allowing people to hold some of the real treasures of Western Civilization in their hand.

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James Murdoch Takes On British Library's Plan To Digitize Newspapers

The Guardian | Dan Sabbagh | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Murdoch has accused the British Library of acting for commercial gain with plan to digitise newspapers -- the library says this is 'patently not...

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Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes Romance Illuminated By New British Library Acquisitions

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Poetry, British Library, Saint Botolph's Review, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Books, Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes, Books News

A wine-stained first edition of the literary magazine founded by Ted Hughes and his Cambridge friends, covered in handwritten annotations by the poet ...

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Amazon, Macmillan Buy Buttons, Gavin De Becker's eBooks, And More Free eBooks

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Ereaders, Macmillan, Atul Gawande, Gavin De Becker, British Library, Checklist-Manifesto, Free eBooks, Ipad, Gift of Fear, Amazon, Books News

The latest developments on the Amazon front include Macmillan, free eBooks and an exclusive deal with a bestselling author. Last week, we were on th...

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The World's Largest Book

The Guardian | Mark Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biggest Book, Library Exhibition, British Library, Books, Klencke Atlas, Charles II, Largest Book, Books News

It takes six people to lift it and has been recorded as the largest book in the world, yet the splendid Klencke Atlas, presented to Charles II on his ...

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The Most Amazing Libraries In The World (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz and Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Library of Congress, Slidepoll, Beautiful Libraries, Libraries, Amazing Libraries, Seattle Public Library, British Library, Books, Trinity College Library, Yale University Library, Books News

Times are changing for libraries everywhere. But even as many libraries build their digital collections and amp up their technological offerings, we t...

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