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 ...

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 ...

In the ancient Babylonian empire, temple scribes across Mesopotamia wrote manuscripts detailing the grain offerings being sacrificed to the gods. Thousands of years later and an ocean away, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CINCINNATI — Two years after downsizing the student population on its Clifton Avenue campus, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is again provoking critics by taking steps to sell rare ...

TAXILA: In a quiet corner of the Attock District Complex, a cultural milestone was marked on Saturday with the inauguration of a newly established library housing more than 1,200 rare, historic and ...

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 Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., home of the world’s largest Shakespeare collection, is presenting the rare book collection of Dayton-based collectors Stuart and Mimi Rose in ...

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 ...

A 38-year-old man is facing a federal charge for allegedly stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in rare and historical Chinese manuscripts from the UCLA library system, according to court papers.