March marks the last month of Rare Books 101 at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Along with opportunities to view significant historic acclaimed works that are always on display, visitors to ...

The Oliver Room at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (photo courtesy the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh) If you’re in the Pittsburgh area and happen across a rare copy of Ptolemy’s Geography at a ...

Louvre suffers another major setback as burst pipe damages rare books, adding to troubles following theft of Napoleon crown jewels worth $102 million.

Penn Libraries has received $4.25 million — the largest gift ever from a living donor — to go toward the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The donor, who is a member of the Libraries’ Board of ...

When Gayle Cooper was a little girl picking cotton on her family’s subsistence farm in Alabama, she had no idea she would go on to consult for a Pulitzer Prize winner, handle some of the University of ...

The library is more than just books. Every month, the Milwaukee Public Library joins Lake Effect to share resources, book recommendations and cool stuff you might not know about. This month is about ...

During American Archives Month in October, help preserve treasures like Audubon’s 'Birds of America' by adopting a book and ensuring its story continues In the Mary Duke Biddle Room in the Rubenstein ...

Dozens of books have disappeared from Warsaw to Paris. The police are looking into who is taking them, and why — a tale of money, geopolitics, crafty forgers and lackluster library security. By Rachel ...

A SNEAK PEEK INSIDE. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED ALL THE WAY BACK TO ANCIENT TIMES, AND SOME OF THOSE FAMOUS TEXTS HAVE SURVIVED OVER THE CENTURIES. LINDA HALL LIBRARY AT UMKC IS NOW ...

Gift from Starr King School for the Ministry deepens Harvard Divinity School’s collection of early modern religious and Unitarian history.

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - McNeese State University’s Frazar Memorial Library will be hosting a Rare Book Petting Zoo where students, faculty, staff, and the general public can get an up-close look at ...

The University opened an exhibit in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the publication of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry novel, “Annie Allen.” ...