Glenlib, the Friends of Grenada Library, Archives and other Heritage Committee, are holding their 1st Annual Diaspora Give-Back Fundraising Event at the University of Maryland on Saturday February 1, 2014,…Read More >

The inaugural issue of the Caribbean Library Journal (CLJ) has been published online by the University of the West Indies, University Library.  The CLJ’s mission is to be ‘an open…Read More >

A workshop to promote UNESCO’s Memory of the World register in the Caribbean region was held in September in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.  The workshop was attended by…Read More >

Il convegno L’autore e il suo archivio organizzato dalla Sezione di Italiano dell’Università di Losanna intende guardare ai documenti di poeti e scrittori novecenteschi da una prospettiva originale, che tenga anche conto…Read More >

e-misférica is a biannual, peer reviewed web journal published by the Hemispheric Institute.  The Summer 2012 issue focussed On the Subject of Archives from the varying perspectives of contributors from…Read More >

The University of Reading has announced it has purchased the manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy at a Sotheby’s auction for the price of £962,500.  The manuscript has been in…Read More >

An historic treaty on limitations and exceptions to copyright for blind and visually impaired persons has been agreed at a diplomatic conference convened by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) held…Read More >

Enjeux de la propriété littéraire dans les espaces publics et privés Abbaye d’Ardenne, 30 et 31 mai 2013 Troisième atelier organisé par le réseau international Diasporic literary archives financé par…Read More >

Sotheby’s is offering the manuscript of Samuel Beckett’s novel Murphy for sale with a guide price of £800,000 to £1.2 million.  The manuscript is contained in six notebooks decorated throughout…Read More >

Second Workshop: Questions of Location, Ownership and Interpretation (Centro Manoscritti, February 28th & March 1st, 2013) One of the aims of the first workshop held in Reading in June 2012…Read More >

Canadian writer and editor Kerry Clare has posted a review of Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace:  Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives on her literary blog Pickle Me This.  The…Read More >

WORDS without BORDERS, a website dedicated to promoting the translation of foreign language writing into English, recently posted a dispatch by author and translator Alison Anderson which highlights the relative…Read More >