Arts, Briefly : Library Admits Damage to 18th-Century Diary
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The British Library has admitted that a historic diary was damaged while in its care, but refused to confirm reports that the manuscript, which recorded preparations for the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, had been left in the trunk of a car.
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A blaze in at the historic Anna Amalia Library in the city of Weimar has consumed thousands of works from the 16th to 18th centuries.
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Plans to turn the birthplace of Thomas Hardy into a holiday cottage anger fans of the Dorset author.
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A valuable royal painting at St James' Palace has been accidentally destroyed by a police officer.
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Part of the UK's national sound archive could be lost as a result of copyright law, the British Library warns.
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The Jamia Millia Islamia university in New Delhi plans to digitize its collection of books and manuscripts, some of them dating to the 16th century, to make them more accessible to researchers.
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WEIMAR, Germany -- German officials are trying to determine exactly what was lost in a blaze at a library housing some the country&#39;s most prized books.
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Arts & entertainment: Slightly amended literary classics receive rejection slips from 18 publishers and agents.
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By Sherman, Will  THIS ARTICLE, REPRINTED FROM DEGREE TUTOR, MAY SEEM TO FOCUS ON PUBLIC LIBRARIES-BUT THERE IS WISDOM HERE FOR ALL INFO PROS. Many predict that the digital age will wipe public bookshelves clean, and permanently end the centuries-old era of libraries.
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WEIMAR - An overnight fire at the famed Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar may have destroyed 30,000 irreplaceable volumes dating back to the Renaissance, officials in Germany said Friday.
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By John Ross  SOME of them have helped to advance our scientific knowledge, but others have destroyed parts of Scotland's heritage.
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Italy's Senate library is getting tough on forgetful lawmakers demanding they return books on Adolf Hitler and other subjects that are up to 25 years overdue.
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Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire Thursday night at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, although thousands more were spirited to safety by a chain of people.
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An Edinburgh man loses his job over comments made about his employer in an online diary, or "blog".
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Card-catalog classifications hardly seem the subject of trans-Atlantic imbroglios, but the Library of Congress recently settled one when it agreed to reinstate a past policy of classifying works by Scottish authors under the heading âScottish literature.â Early last year the library started classifying about 600 titles by Scottish writers as âEnglish literature,â with subheadings like âScottish authorsâ or âScottish poets.â That offended the National Library of Scotland, which complained, enlisting the support of an American congressman, Mike McIntyre, Democrat of North Carolina. Early this month, the librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, wrote to the National Library of Scotland and the British Library, informing them that the Scots would get their own catalog distinction. As of now the Library of Congress is still classifying the works of Irish and Welsh writers under subcategories of English literature, but a spokesman, Matt Raymond, said the library has yet to receive any complaints.
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A fire at a historical library in Germany destroyed many more rare books than previously thought.
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Hundreds of thousands of priceless antique books were feared destroyed or badly damaged yesterday by a fire that swept through a 16th century German palace.