The New York Times: “The New York Public Library is acquiring the collection of Jonathan Mann, an Abraham Lincoln expert who died last summer after a random attack on the Manhattan Bridge…After considering several institutions, they went with the New York Public Library, in part because of its commitment to public access and digitization. “We felt it would get the collection out to more people,” Olinkiewicz said. And now, at the library, “it will live forever.” Brent Reidy, the library’s director of research libraries, called Mann’s trove, which is being acquired entirely by donation, “rich and all-encompassing.” “Some collections are very focused,” he said. “But he had pretty broad taste when it came to anything relating to Lincoln.”