The examination of race and identity can be seen throughout literature, and increasingly today. In her debut novel, The Library Thief, Kuchenga Shenjé explores these concepts — and the associated ...

A late 19th century library supply catalog provides a glimpse into how libraries might have dealt with space issues over a century ago Alexia MacClain It seems as if libraries have always had the ...

Harvard Library recently removed the binding of a book in its collection made from human skin. The book, “Des Destinées de L’âme” (“Destinies of the Soul”), has been in the university’s collection for ...

As personal libraries grew in the 19th and 20th centuries, so did bookplates. A way of establishing ownership, the little pasted pieces of paper pressed on inside covers evolved into miniature works ...

Like most bookworms, Ann Duprey keeps a pile of books she intends to read at some point. Even her husband jokes about it, saying, " 'You’ll never read these all in your lifetime.' " But the retired ...

A 19th Century miniature "travelling library" containing 9cm-long (3.5in) French books has been added to a university collection. Travelling libraries became popular during the age of horse-drawn ...

Join the Student Friends at Mudd Library to hear from curators, April Armstrong *14 and Emma Paradies, about the exhibit "Fashion, Feminism, and Fear: Clothing and Power in the 19th Century." In the ...

From Jan. 23 to Aug. 2, the University of Wisconsin Special Collections presents their first ever educational board games exhibition titled “‘Most Agreeable & Rational Recreation’: Two Centuries of ...

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SPRINGFIELD — The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is once again under the spotlight after a manager failed to consult a collections committee before purchasing a 21-star flag whose ...