http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2013/03/the-village-of-zoar-ohio-might-be-destroyed.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoar,_Ohio

"Zoar was founded by German religious dissenters called the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1817."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rottenacker

"a group of Separatists from Wuerttemberg led by Joseph Michael Bimeler from Ulm and Stephan Huber from Rottenacker emigrated to the United States in 1817 and went to Ohio where they founded a communal society at Zoar. There, they lived in a community of goods where all private property was abolished. "

See also
http://books.google.de/books?id=WCuHCwV9oIYC&pg=PA123

http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015002375130

Video: Zoar in Pictures
http://vimeo.com/50859534

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https://plus.google.com/106186030764599769426/posts

"The Obama White House today directed federal agencies to develop open-access policies within the next six months."

https://plus.google.com/u/0/109377556796183035206/posts/8hzviMJeVHJ (Suber)

Source: http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=127043&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click

Commons Picture of the Year 2012, by Pierre Dalous, CC-BY-SA

Storify by Diane Scherzler:

http://storify.com/scherzler/these-manuscripts-are-our-identity

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http://ncecho.org/

NC ECHO searches across digital collections at a variety of cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina.

"Mr. Askey is not the only librarian to face a potential lawsuit for voicing an opinion about academic publications.

The Canadian Center of Science and Education is threatening to sue Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver, after he included the center and three of its related companies on his blog's list of journals he considers to be "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers," which take advantage of academics desperate to get their work published. In separate blog posts, Mr. Beall details why he believes the companies are misleading.

The Canadian center, which is based in Toronto, is asking for the companies to be removed from the list as well as $10,000 for legal fees and damages, according to a letter from the center's lawyers obtained by The Chronicle.

If Mr. Beall does not comply, he will be "subject to a civil action," the letter stated."

http://chronicle.com/article/Librarians-Rally-Behind/137329/

See also
http://www.yousendit.com/download/UW13SU5OUnF0TW5FdzhUQw

http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2013/02/10/why-we-must-support-cc-by-e-g-rcuk-policy-its-good-for-us-and-good-for-the-world/

By Peter Murray Rust

See also
http://jlsc-pub.org/jlsc/vol1/iss1/5/

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/71591396/Enchiridion%2013.pdf

"Monastic psalter. Multiple folios on vellum, three groups of two or three consecutive folios. France, ca. 1220: approx. 144 x 127 mm (written area approx. 130 x 80 mm). Single column, 19 lines. Decoration: some leaves have two- to five-line initials in gold—now worn down to the brightly colored gesso—on red and blue grounds infilled with white penwork decoration. Versal initials al-ternate in gold and blue. One folio opens the Litany. Foliated in modern pencil: 88-90, 92-94, 104-105. Contents: (a) end of Psalm 140, Psalms 141-143, most of Psalm 145 (fols. 88-90, four initials); (b) Psalms 147-150, Canticle of Isaiah, Canticle of Ezechiel, most of the Canticle of Anna (fols. 92-94, seven initials); (c) nearly all of the Athanasian Creed, opening of the Litany of the Saints (fols. 104-105, one large initial K for the Kyrie of the Litany). Because three folios were missing from the codex after fol. 105, fol. 104 represents all that survives from the Litany.
Condition and Provenance: this book was in a fire at some point, for scorched corners and edges of the slightly browned leaves have flaked away, leaving irregularly shaped folios. Some of these have been inscribed. Selection (b), in fact, has the signature (92r) of the sixteenth-century owner François de Marcambie, possibly a descendant of François de la Haye, seigneur de Marcambie (Nôtre Dame de Cenilly, Basse-Normandie). This François offered a reward of wine should the book, if lost, be returned to him (126r). The name of a second owner, B. Goussil, is recorded in a seventeenth-century script on 92v and 105v. The volume came into the possession of Count Eric von Rosen (1879-1948) of Rockelstad Castle, Sweden (now a conference center), and was sold in 1969 and 1980, eventually acquired by Canadian banker Joseph Pope, owner of the Bergendal Collection. Purchased by a German dealer (Sotheby’s 5 July 2011 lot 55), it was subsequently cut up and dispersed. These three groups of leaves, all bound in full leather, probably represent the last consecutive folios from this manuscript."

For cutting up manuscripts for profit see the links at
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/219051399/