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Columbia University

Columbia University Libraries’ Rare Book & Manuscript Library has to announced the acquisition of the archive of the author Dawn Powell. The collection includes published and unpublished manuscripts, artwork, first editions, and the long suite of diaries that capture her life experiences in New York City during the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Powell, a New York novelist whose posthumous champions included Gore Vidal, Edmund Wilson and Matthew Josephson, produced hundreds of short stories, ten plays, fifteen novels and extended diary volumes throughout her lifetime. Despite a prodigious output, Powell’s career was not widely regarded during her lifetime. When she died in 1965, most of her novels were out of print.

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PLR

Ed Vaizey MP, Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, announced on 27 March 2013, his decision to abolish the body that administers Public Lending Right (PLR). PLR is the legal right of authors to payment from Government each time their books are borrowed from public libraries.

The British Library Board will take on statutory responsibility for administering PLR. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) undertook a consultation in summer 2012 in which this was stated as their preferred option. The transfer is scheduled for 1 October 2013, subject to the approval of Parliament. 

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