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World Library Foundation Newsletter: April 2021, Volume 5, Issue 4

A Day for Books: World Book and Copyright Day, April 23

World Library Foundation Newsletter Dept.

2021

Abstract

The World Library Foundation's newsletter for April 2021 (Volume 5, Issue 4). A Day for Books: World Book and Copyright Day, April 23, followed back to the three writers remembered on that day in 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, to the Catalan feast of Sant Jordi with its roses and books, to the Statute of Anne (1710) and the Berne Convention (1886), and to Tbilisi, World Book Capital for 2021. Also in this issue: the Executive Director's message, "A Gift of Books"; Athens 1896, on the first modern Olympic Games at 125; and from the Library Exhibits, The Titanic.

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