An exchange student from Mexico City is the newest winner of the Bancroft Library's Hill-Shumate Book Collecting Prize, given annually to an undergraduate. History student and bibliophile Luciano Concheiro San Vicente, 20, owns a collection of more than 5,000 items ? from 19th-century cookbooks and monumental histories to early 20th-century government pamphlets ? that help illuminate what it ...
New Taipei City Mayor Eric Chu today at city administration conference expressed his ambition to make New Taipei City a reading community. In essence, he wants to increase the book-reading rate of citizens through creating e-libraries, collecting used books, and dispatching mobile library buses. Commissioner Lin of Cultural Affairs Department at the conference presented a special report on the ...
