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[Bennett Gilbert <bennett@gilbooks.com>]

IBM and Kazkommertzbank to Sponsor Kazak Rare Books Digitization
http://www.noticias.info/Asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=29554&src=0

Donation of early books collection to the University of Southern Maine
http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D83SLEF01-198.shtml

Obituary for Louis Morris of Toronto
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1090188610220&call_pageid=968350130169&col=969483202845&tacodalogin=no

The scrivener's tale: how Chaucer's sloppy copyist was unmasked after 600 years: Academic detective work leads to scribe from Surrey chided in poem for his errors
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1265005,00.html

ClearChannel has gone into the business of organizing exhibitions and marketing them to museums.  These exhibitions are deficient in intellectual integrity and artistic quality and can be influenced by the marketing and propaganda interests of the show's lenders or sponsors.  The question of the consequences of taking exhibitions out of the hands of curators is an important and consequential one for special collections librarians:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040711/news_1a11pincus.html

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