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 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, ...

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 ...

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Lafayette College is the proud owner of two rare books about slavery. The books date back to the 1800's. They were discovered at a book sale at the Bethlehem Public Library. The books went to the ...

On a chilly March evening while out for a walk with his dog Sparky on the North Side, Robert Miller came upon some books scattered on the sidewalk. Even in the dim light, Miller could see that these ...

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 ...

How the University of Miami’s Special Collections library came to possess one of its rarest, most valuable works — three volumes of engravings of roses commissioned by Empress Josephine Bonaparte of ...

Part of the University of Toronto, this library is home to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, which comprises some 740,000 rare books, from a Babylonian cuneiform tablet to medieval ...