+ Central Library may be put up for sale (via Providence Journal)

The Providence Public Library is considering selling its historic 107-year-old Central Library downtown to shore up its troubled finances and move to a more user-friendly location.

+ Historic German library ravaged in 2004 fire to reopen in October (via IHT)

A historic German library that was gutted by fire in 2004 will reopen in October following a €12 million (US$15.8 million) restoration, officials said Friday. The Duchess Anna Amalia Library in Weimar is to reopen with a ceremony on Oct. 24, and the building “will look different inside and out from how we remember it,” said Hellmut Seemann, president of the Foundation of Weimar Classics. The Sept. 2, 2004 fire tore through the roof and top floor of the 16th-century rococo palace, which houses the library in the city where the nation’s most revered writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, spent much of his life.

+ Cuba search engine trawls Castro speeches (via Reuters)

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