Look carefully at the grass area just north of the library. It is crisscrossed by two sidewalks that form a giant 'X,' and as anyone who has seen a cartoon treasure map knows, 'X' marks the spot. Dig ...

When I was younger and I watched Beauty and the Beast, I fell in love. No, I’m not talking about with the Beast. I’m talking about his amazing LIBRARY. The huge windows, the open two-story floor plan, ...

In 1939, Ernest Hemingway left a large collection of his belongings—the manuscript of his earliest short story, childhood trinkets, memorabilia from his time at war, intimate letters, books, and ...

How does one define a book? Most commonly, a book (or “codex”) is defined as a written or printed work that consists of pages sewn or glued together along one side that has some kind of cover, or a ...

Among the holdings of the Special Collections Department at Brandeis are some dozen 19th-century gift books. Gift books were a popular genre of literary annual in the mid-1800s in England and ...

Donald A. Barclay does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...

How the women who ran libraries during the Harlem Renaissance built collections and, just as important, communities of writers and readers. By Jennifer Schuessler It was a banner day in the history of ...

Precious maps, books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years Travis McDade More than $8 million worth of books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh were stolen ...

Slate’s Best Books of 2015 coverage: Monday: Overlooked books of 2015. Tuesday: The best lines of 2015. Wednesday: The best comics of 2015. Thursday: Laura Miller and Katy Waldman’s favorite books of ...

James Benesh was so interested in researching an online hockey draft, he ended up with one of the largest-known collections of hockey books and eventually being called a hockey historian. The Regina ...

Yvonne Blomer is the author of As if a Raven. (Palimpsest Press/yvonneblomer.com) What it's about: Yvonne Blomer, the current poet laureate for Victoria, B.C., explores the connection between birds ...