The British Library is always up to something interesting; I just discovered their Database of Bookbindings. This is an entire online collection dedicated to the bindings of books held by the British Library, some of which date back to 1500! The collection also includes some items held by the National Library of Netherlands.
The collection includes [...]

Take a look at the UK’s smallest library! The resourceful folks from Westbury-sub-Mendip in Somerset converted an old phone booth that was out of use into a small lending library after the town lost its library. People bring books they have read and exchange them for new reading material, CDs and DVDs.
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The Stendhal University of Grenoble has joined forces with the city’s public library to create the digital collection Les Manuscrits de Stendhal. The site includes Stendhal’s personal correspondence, as well as reflections on travels, literature and philosophy. And in case you are about to start looking for the manuscripts of  “The Red and the Black” [...]

The Spanish Ministry of Culture has created the Red de Bibliotecas de Museos (BIMUS) in order to make the holdings of a number of museum libraries available to the general public. The project wishes to promote collaboration through the use of a common online catalog, develop common policies such as cooperative acquisitions, and foment interlibrary [...]

For the 20th anniversary after the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Guardian has gathered a number of online projects reflecting its history and present.

Videos  documenting the Wall’s history (The Guardian)
Photographs submitted by readers (The New York Times)
Interactive map tracing bits and pieces of the actual wall (BBC)
Berlin Twitter Wall (Twitter)
The Berlin Project
Mauer Mob (Performance [...]

The European Library portal can help you search the online catalogs to all the major libraries in the European Union. The project originates from the TEL-project which was set up as a cooperative framework that would facilitate access to all the major national and deposit collection from Europe’s national libraries. The European Library is [...]

RTVE.es is Spain’s Radio and Television Corporation, and between news reports and other stories they also include reviews of the world’s literary classics. Presenter Esther Lorenzo creates brief descriptions of the story, gives some historical background, gives a little description of the specific edition she read, and encourages the listener to read the classics. Currently [...]

The Atlas database at the Louvre provides access to all the items exhibited at the museum, some 30,000 items. This database was first up and running in French, and currently functions in English thanks to financial help the American Friends of the Louvre. Each item can be magnified, and comes with a brief description.
You can [...]

Today the Times Online has a interesting article about ImHalal, a new search engine designed to help Muslims navigate the web without running into potentially “sinful” material.
The service was developed by the Dutch company AZS Media Group, and was launched yesterday. Currently ImHalal functions in 15 different languages, and the developers expect it to really [...]

Bubisher is a really heart-warming project that started with a group of students at the Colegio San Marciso who wanted to help promote literacy among refugees in the Sahara. The children initially got involved to help promote literacy, but when the realized how difficult it was to access reading material in the area, they thought [...]