An interview with the Library of Congress Rare Books Chief Mark Dimunation - F... - The Diigo Meta page

• 16 Jul 09
  

  Jennifer Hadley

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• 02 Jul 09
  

  Phil

  It is the largest rare book collection in North America, housed in the largest library in the world, a “huge theme park of materials,” as he describes it. The division contains some 850,000 items—including Charles Dickens’ walking stick, the contents of Abraham Lincoln’s pockets on the night he was assassinated, and The Bay Psalm Book, published in 1640, the first book printed in what became the United States.

• 01 Jul 09
  

  SJLibrary Learning

  "Many book collectors and curators would give all their first editions for Mark Dimunation’s job. Since 1998, Dimunation has served as chief of the Library of Congress’s Rare Books and Special Collections Division."

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