Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...

Undoubtedly, the Collections Explorer exposes me to the nooks and crannies of Harvard Library’s vast collection in ways that ...

A Pennsylvania man spent years trying to offload his great-grandfather’s trunk of old silent films with no luck — until the ...

Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to ...

On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...

Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been used by everyone from celebrated 14th-Century mathematicians to JRR Tolkien.

The new head of the New Brunswick Public Library Service got rid of a significant collection of books at the Kings Landing library when he was in charge of the historical settlement, according to a ...

Even as the building was under construction, Melvin Thompson sometimes sat outside the Carter G. Woodson library branch and stared at the illuminated black and white image of Vivian G. Harsh, ...

UPPER CHICHESTER – Upper Chichester Library is incorporating the latest in “cloud” technology to offer thousands of eBooks and audiobooks to its members. Supported by generous funding from Delco ...