Steinbeck's Hometown to Close Libraries
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Mary Jean Gamble organized the John Steinbeck historical archives, supervised the Steinbeck literature collection and ranks as an authority on Salinas history and genealogy.
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SPENCER, Iowa -- The final chapter is closed on Dewey Readmore Books.
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Reading University's ruling council has voted to approve the closure of its physics department.
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A fire in one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries has destroyed up to 30,000 rare books. &quot;The destruction of many thousands of books, particularly from the 16th to 18th centuries
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Travel: Readers' nominations have been whittled down to 12 towns to be judged by seaside experts, including Bill Bryson and Rick Stein.
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Rent, the acclaimed musical chronicle of counterculture life and death in Manhattan's East Village, will close in June after more than a dozen years on Broadway
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Ernest Hemingway's final home in this central Idaho mountain town &#151; with its astonishing array of the author's personal possessions &#151; is perhaps the most enigmatic, and certainly the least visited, of the houses the Nobel Prize winner once owned. As a result it's mostly remembered as the place where the writer killed himself in the main entryway with a shotgun in 1961.
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A west Belfast brewery is to close with the loss of 85 jobs, marking an end to 107 years of brewing on the site.
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The house in East Hollywood where the novelist spent his pivotal years is under threat of demolition. Will Los Angeles save it?
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Barbara Lehman has lived in this central New Jersey community for 30 years, but her time here is nearing an end.
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WEIMAR, Germany - A historic German library that was gutted by fire in 2004 will reopen in October following a $15.8 million restoration, officials said Friday.  The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar is to reopen with a ceremony on Oct.
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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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A quirk in federal funding could close all 15 libraries in Jackson County, Ore.
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The UK's largest brewer announces it is closing its operation in Berkshire putting 362 jobs there at risk.
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Up to 30,000 irreplaceable books were destroyed in a fire on Thursday night at one of Germany&#39;s most historic libraries, in the eastern city of Weimar, officials said on Friday.
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On October 25th, 1962, author John Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
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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.