This site offers a random catalogue card from the Russian National Library every time you enter it.

Dutch Boy Paint Chip Poems

'Library of Alexandria discovered' by David Whitehouse. BBC News, 12 May, 14.32 GMT

The Librarian (Your Life Work series). Produced by Holmes (Burton) Films, Inc. for Vocational Guidance Films, Inc. on Internet Archives site.

Jerry the Frog Productions presents a variety of spoofs based on movies, including The Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter series.

The Victoria & Albert Museum has just launched its interactive birthday book, a service which matches your birthday (day and month) with those of famous designers, artists and printers. You can find out a little about the person and see a picture of them or their work. You can also send friends an e-card with an image by or of someone who shares their birthday.

The Pre-Raphaelite Vision Exhibition at the Tate Britain.

'Library without books' by J. Mark Lytle. The Guardian, Thursday 22 April 2004.

The book that launched the science of anatomy,De Humani Corporus Fabrica by Andreas Vesalius (1543), is one of the books included in the British Library's Turning the Pages Project, the online part of which is launched today.

I have no words to describe this cartoon by Cheeky Beef International.