Friday, September 06, 2013 The Bibliographical Society is delighted that the University of London has announced that it is abandoning the proposed sale of four of its Shakespeare Folios. I would like to thank everyone involved in the campaign to raise awareness of the sale, and all those who signed [...]
Senate House Library, University of London, is proposing to sell copies of the Library’s first four Shakespeare folios. These folios form a critical part of the collection left to the University of London by Sir Louis Sterling in 1956, on condition that they remain permanently in the University Library. [...]
A new AHRC-funded international research network on Community Libraries aims to establish a dynamic, interdisciplinary research forum to investigate the role of libraries in shaping communities in the long eighteenth century. Developed by Dr Mark Towsey (University of Liverpool) together with partners at Loyola University Chicago, the Newberry Library, and Dr [...]