Temple is planning how it will collaborate with The Library Company of Philadelphia as it awaits the finalization of the ...

On the curator’s table in the Charles E. Young Research Library lay a book over four centuries old. Devin Fitzgerald, curator of rare books and history of printing at the UCLA Library Special ...

Archives serve as a lens for people to understand the past and see firsthand accounts of history through photographs, newspapers and other documents. At ASU Library, millions of these documents and ...

Gibson Library is in a Grade II listed building nestled in Saffron Walden, Essex, and is also home to unique annotated copies ...

Building a research-library collection has been an educated guessing game. Librarians try to figure out what faculty members, undergraduates, and other users are going to want. Then they buy the ...

UC Davis has received three significant collections of coffee-related materials that together illuminate the history, science and global impact of specialty coffee.

The restricted section of the Hogwarts’ library in “Harry Potter” keeps dangerous and secret books out of the reach of curious students. Students like Harry, Ron and Hermione can only access books in ...

Why do people collect things? The motivations are as varied as the objects people collect. Perhaps it’s loyalty to a sports team, for instance, or an obsessive desire to accumulate a single kind of ...

In 1903 Henry Edwards Huntington, a wealthy businessman, purchased the "San Marino Ranch," a working ranch that consisted of nearly 600 acres. His superintendent, William Hertrich, was influential in ...