Luke Harding reports in The Guardian, “The distinguished Russian scholar Orlando Figes today revealed that his Russian publisher had cancelled a contract to publish his latest book on life under… Read more »

The University of California at Los Angeles Library has received its largest gift ever for its collections—$5 million dollars from the Arcadia Fund. According to the UCLA website, “The library… Read more »

The famous medieval manuscript library, The Abbey Library of St. Gall, is underway developing a virtual library of all 400 of its priceless texts and manuscripts dating from before 1000… Read more »

Henry Ashby Turner, the historian who was one of the twentieth century’s leading experts on the Nazis’ rise to power and whose challenge to the theory that German industrialists were… Read more »

OK, for those of you re-tooling your life in the New Year, US News and World Report has some important reading – the thirteen most overrated careers. Guess what made… Read more »

There was a time, dare I say it, when the British claimed superiority over the Yanks, especially when it came to education. My mother, a fiercely competitive history teacher, reveled… Read more »

Apparently, not every large institution whose charge it is to protect mother literature is giving in to the awesome super-powers of Google and selling out the old dame like a… Read more »

“I’ve been following the MFA Melee/Fight/Argument over at MobyLives,” writes Robert Gray in a new commentary on Fresh Eyes. It’s prompted him to a “minor rant” about when “I dipped… Read more »

When the Octagon Library at the Queen Mary branch of the University of London decided it was time to refurbish, there was one problem: What to do with its surplus… Read more »

For the past several months,” one of Canada’s largest publishers of college textbooks, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, “has been quietly trying to coax companies into buying advertising space in their texts,” reports… Read more »