Hepburn papers donated to library
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Movie scripts and personal letters belonging to the late star Katharine Hepburn are to go on show.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Amateur historians and academics can take advantage of a wealth of archived data on the web.
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Authorities are investigating the theft of a rare 18th century manuscript about Rome's politically powerful Orsini family from an exhibit case at a University of California, Los Angeles library.
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By Mary Hopkin, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Sep.
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Documents dating from the Civil War and others to and from Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt are among hundreds of stolen documents sold online that eBay is agreeing to buy back and return to New York's archives, a state official said Saturday.
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A pink cocktail dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was auctioned Wednesday for nearly $200,000 &#151; more than six times what the auctioneers expected.
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[World News]: London, Dec 15 : Rare and contemporary works from the libraries of five of the world&#39;s most important academic institutions are to be digitised by Google and made available online.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 10--What a difference face-to-face communication makes. Last week, an hour or so of conversation swept away months of uncertainty about the fate of public library services in Gulfport.
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The Princeton University Library is now the holder of working manuscripts and notebooks for four well-known Kahlil Gibran books, including the Lebanese-American's best-selling "The Prophet."
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Rare works by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope are to be sold at auction.
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Students take note - endless journeys to the library could become a thing of the past thanks to a new multimillion-pound scheme to make classic texts available at the click of a mouse.
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The Heritage Lottery Fund awarded grants toward the preservation of two historic British ships, the Mary Rose and the Cutty Sark, Agence France-Presse reported. The fund awarded Â£10 million ($19.7 million) for extensive restoration to the Cutty Sark, a tea clipper shown above in a computer image, after it was gutted by fire last May. And Â£21 million ($41.4 million) went to the Mary Rose, King Henry VIIIâs flagship, which sank in 1545 and was raised in 1982. The money is to pay for a museum in the dockyards at Portsmouth, England, that will house the Mary Rose and the artifacts found with it.
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By Eijiro Kawada, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 5--The Pierce County Library System, which operates 17 branches around the suburbs, wants voters to approve a tax hike this month to expand hours and collections, and improve services.
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Some 350 boxes stuffed with receipts, photographs, letters and other records chronicling the history of the Leo Castelli Gallery are being given to the Smithsonian Institutionâs Archives of American Art in Washington.
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including out of print volumes -- soon will become part of the vast Google database. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, and the New
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TENS of thousands of books flew off the shelves last week when the Birmingham Mail linked up with Disney to offer a fabulous collection of encyclopaedias.