The Inside Story of the $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library: Precious maps, #books and artworks vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years. Far from a crime just against the library, the theft was a crime against the world’s cultural heritage. Everywhere they looked, the auditors found a staggering degree of destruction and looting.
A rare book the size of a matchbox written by the teenage Charlotte Brontë will go on public display for the first time after a
Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also
How do we #LoveReading? Let us count the ways. If reading is your one true love, celebrate your Valentine’s Day the library way with these
A section of the 1913 Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd Circular featuring new Autumn Fashions. This Flickr album was created by Jennifer Sweetapple, a
#Library#Shelfies offer book stores, libraries, schools, and individuals an opportunity to express their reading preferences through a single photograph. Today is your day to share
Emma Willard’s Maps of Time By Susan Schulten In the 21st-century, infographics are everywhere. In the classroom, in the newspaper, in government reports, these concise
“Once upon a time, a university student called Chris Browne decided to take up book collecting. It was 1970, and he bought a first edition
#1: The book is where Singapore got its knowledge about Sang Nila Utama and the Singapore stone from. #2: It’s extremely rare – and probably worth thousands of
Atlas Obscura readers wrote in about the classic tales that taught them one thing—unease. The stories and books we consume as children can stick with
Medieval scribes protected their work by threatening death, or worse. In the Middle Ages, creating a book could take years. A scribe would bend over
Buying a best-selling thriller for an escapist read is one thing. Assembling an array of books for a library that is tailor-made to one’s own
Rare Audubon bird book displayed at Liverpool library – One of the world’s rarest books by the 19th Century US artist and ornithologist John James
All kinds of magical artifacts from the British Library, from the New-York Historical Society’s own collections, and from other institutions, all of which illustrated the
David Sedaris’ reading of the “Santaland Diaries” is an NPR tradition. Twenty-six years ago, he first shared his tale of being Crumpet, one of Santa’s