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Sunday, 19th December 2004

Former library employee pleads guilty to selling ancient texts

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Librarianship
Source: CILIP
Selected Articles from the December Issue of CILIP's Library + Information update are Now Online
+ Getting health information into communities
+ Preserving digital resources in the UK
+ Phil Bradley's Internet Q & A
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Special Collections--Cookbooks
Source: Ann Arbor News
We are what we ate, cookbook collection shows
"It was published in 1796, a very long time ago in the history of American culinary arts. Just think of it. There were no hot dogs, hamburgers or deli sandwiches to be found. Still, some of the recipes in the first American cookbook, part of a collection assembled by an Ann Arbor couple, wouldn't seem so strange to our tastes today. There were recipes for turkey served with cranberry sauce, for instance.... That book and thousands of other pieces of American culinary history are being donated to the University of Michigan's Clements Library...."
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Theft--Academic Library
Source: AP (via Akron Beacon Journal
Former library employee pleads guilty to selling ancient texts
"A former employee of the Kenyon College library pleaded guilty Friday to selling 50 rare books and other documents from the school's collection for $26,000."

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