The story of Hemingway, and his wife Mary, surviving two plane crashes in 48 hours. Original NYT article here.
Happy Bloomsday! A page from the Rosenbach Manuscript of James Joyce’s Ulysses, which is held at the Rosenbach Museum & Library. A different manuscript was auctioned in 2000 by Christie’s; a first edition of the published work recently sold for over £20,000.
This twentieth-century avant-garde journal Zenit was published in the former Yugoslavia. Though held in the National Library of Serbia, it is available online from the much-publicized, cross-cultural World Digital Library.
The WDL was initiated (and is hosted) by the Library of Congress, developed by many global partners, and sponsored by UNESCO. Among it’s nicest features: images of book spines, covers, and blank pages for fuller bibliographic information; closed captioning on videos and downloadable TIFFs.
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This podcast provides the unique opportunity to go behind-the-scenes with library professionals. Hear curator Nancy Kuhl and archivist Molly Wheeler discuss the archival collection on modernist Margaret Anderson.
Personal Involvement Disclaimer: We produced this when I was an intern at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library last summer. Look for it on Yale’s iTunesU, as well.
