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Dying Speeches and Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library http://broadsides.law.harvard.edu/ Just as programs are sold at sporting events today, broadsides — styled at the time as “Last Dying Speeches” or “Bloody Murders” — were sold ...

Registrum hujus operis libri cronicarum cū figuris et ijmagibus ab inicio mūdi…, is commonly known as the Nuremberg Chronicle. This book was written by Hartmann Schedel and stands as an encyclopedic history of the western world and its cities. The ...

The print collection of Göttweig Monastery is Austria’s largest private collection of historical graphic art. The digitization of the collection is a project developed by the Department of Image Science at Danube University under the direction of Prof. Dr. Oliver ...

Web editions of current and back issues of the Getty Conservation Institute newsletter can be found at http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/newsletters/ Free electronic publications of the Getty Conservation Institute can be found here http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/ The Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) works internationally to advance ...

The Civil War Manuscripts Archives collection includes approximately 30 linear feet of personal letters, mainly from soldiers serving in Union regiments from Central Upstate New York. It also includes photographs, diaries and other papers from the period. A database has ...

BU Libraries will be hosting a trial of www.rarebooks.info, which runs until January 14, 2008. Rarebooks.info provides 101 electronic bibliographies online. Subjects cover early printing, world literature, natural history, science, medicine, theology, cultural and area studies, Judaica, music, theology, art ...

Preservation Student Assistant (undergraduate position) The Binghamton University Preservation Department bases its training and practices on the Cornell University model, and is part of a state-wide University Library Preservation and Conservation program. Duties: Examine and sort damaged and brittle books ...