• World’s oldest printed objects join Gutenberg Bible in Beinecke display

According to this post in Yale News, Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, another landmark of the same history, a 1,250-year-old print of Buddhist prayers — the earliest known printed text that can be reliably dated — joins it on regular display.
The updated display presents a broader and more complete story of humanity’s development of printing over centuries, Beinecke curators say. …”

MORE LIBRARY AND PUBLISHING NEWS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES

• cOAlition S confirms the end of its financial support for Open Access publishing under transformative arrangements after 2024

• Nature drops open-access charges for most of Africa

• OverDrive launches Deep Search and Notify Me features to help readers discover books beyond the library’s collection

• Teaching Critical Reading Skills: Strategies for Academic Librarians (2 volumes)

• Fight to support Digital Access in libraries reaches 1000+ Author names

• Research Resources: New Online Tool Provides Health Snapshot of All 435 U.S. Congressional Districts (Congressional District Health Dashboard)

• Report: Sweden’s National Library Turns Page to AI to Parse Centuries of Data

CONFERENCES, MEETINGS & WEBINARS

“Finding Your People: Exploring the Past, Present, and Future of Documenting Black Families in Special Collections and Archives” – Feb 9, 2023 01:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

“Please join the Southern Historical Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Wilson Special Collections Library for a virtual panel discussion.

“The Black family, its structure, representation, and characteristics seem to be a near-constant topic of question and conjecture in our society. What role do archives play in these discussions and our understanding of the Black family?

“This panel discussion will bring together faculty researchers and archival practitioners to discuss the representation of Black families in the archive, the history, and impact of collecting, examine where we are at this current moment, and what the future of Black family collections might look like. …”