By The University of Chicago

The new Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equivalents. With its soaring elliptical dome and prime location on campus, the Mansueto Library’s Grand Reading Room, which opens May 16, 2011, provides an inviting space for rigorous scholarship in an array of fields.

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Posted on May 10, 2011

John Paul Stevens bio also noted

The Society of Midland Authors announced this week its winners for best books of 2010. Let’s take a look at the categories that most interest us and enhance the value of their press release with simple digital tools.
NONFICTION
WINNER: Deborah Blum, The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
“Not only is The Poisoner’s Handbook as thrilling as any CSI episode, but it also offers something even better: an education in how forensics really works,” Art Taylor wrote in the Washington Post.

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Posted on May 6, 2011

By jasondr11

The connection between the Chicago punk scene in the 1990s and open-access publishing.

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Posted on May 3, 2011

By TED

Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad – with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is Our Choice, Al Gore’s sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.

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Posted on April 29, 2011

By The Beachwood Hidden Compartment Affairs Bureau

1. Book Diversion Safe.

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Posted on April 28, 2011

By AP

A copy of The Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the world’s oldest printed books, dating to 1493, is for sale.

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Posted on April 25, 2011

By ChristianFocus

Last week a few folks from Christian Focus Publications were in attendance at the 2011 Gospel Coalition conference in Chicago. Our Christian Focus, Mentor, and Christian Heritage imprints were featured at the Christian Focus Publications table in the main book area, while our CF4K titles were featured on the children’s book tables.

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Posted on April 18, 2011

By Ben Sage

Performed at the Double Door.

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Posted on April 15, 2011

By ProductionsPlusTV

The Talent Shop’s Margery Krevsky discusses her book Sirens of Chrome and auto show product specialists on WLS-TV in Chicago.

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Posted on April 13, 2011

By Vertigo1871

Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923.
It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived.
The magazine was set up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. The “sub-genre” pioneered by Weird Tales writers has come to be called weird fiction. The first editor published some of Weird Tales’ most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Clark Ashton Smith and Seabury Quinn.

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Posted on April 12, 2011