More than 1,000 cultural organisations — including the British Library, the European Commission, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Louvre — are contributing material to Europeana, the European online library: “Internet users will be able to access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archive documents, paintings and films. ” More at BBC today, [...]
Tagged digital_library, europeana, online_libraryPW reports lots of books about President-Elent Barack Obama in the offing, and the LA Times reports that “there are at least nine books about the president-elect and the 2008 campaign coming out in the next few months,” among which:
NBC’s Chuck Todd and polling expert Sheldon Gawiser will co-write How Obama Won, “a state-by-state guide [...]
Tagged obama, politics, U.S. presidentThe AP reports tonight that the 80-year old Catholic priest, columnist and novelist Andrew Greeley “is in critical condition at a Chicago-area hospital after falling and fracturing his skull. … Greeley’s family says he snagged his jacket in the door of a taxicab Friday afternoon and fell. Friends say he suffered bleeding on the brain. [...]
Tagged andrew greeley, author, catholic writer, greeleyLibrary Journal’s annotated list of fiction and mystery titles for the holiday season offers 16 books, including a some food-themed cozies, a new Sneaky Pie Brown (Santa Clawed: A Mrs. Murphy Mystery), and a short Austrian tale of literary fiction by Adalbert Stifter, Rock Crystal.
LJ’s similar list of romance titles has another 14 holiday titles [...]
michael crichton
Writer Michael Crichton died yesterday of cancer at age 66. He’s the author of The Andromeda Strain (1969), Jurassic Park (1990), and other novels, and the creator of the long-running medical drama series, ER. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, studied anthropology at Cambridge University, and graduated from Harvard Medical School in [...]
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