When he was a student at the University, Stephen Clark said he spent endless hours at libraries on campus. Little did he know that one day a library would be built in his name. On Friday afternoon, ...
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...
On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...
The Library of Congress is going to the map next week. Geographic Information Systems Day, or GIS Day, returns Nov. 14. The Library of Congress will celebrate the annual library symposium on ...
One by one, Newberry Library curator Robert Karrow pulled old maps from oversized file folders, each recovered from a treasure trove that had been packed away and forgotten for nearly a ...
The Library of Congress is heading into old territory with its newest online collection. The research library is putting thousands of maps from the late 1800s to the early 1900s on its website, thanks ...