LISNews: Librarian News

The Guardian (UK) has this story on how Britain is becoming the
new centre for the illegal trafficking of rare books and
manuscripts, many of which have been stolen from European
libraries.
While they can\'t seem to keep the illegal stuff out, the
good stuff is getting away.
This story from The Independent on how British libraries
are not able to
compete with \"wealthy American libraries\" which are
offering big bucks to buy up the papers of famous modern
British authors including Ted Hughes, Martin Amis and Salman
Rushdie.
Now if someone will just point me at one of these wealthy
American libraries...