The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria. “If I could ...

The British Library of Political and Economic Science was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. Arriving at a time when the social, legal and economic ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

Imagine you wanted to find books or journal articles on a particular subject. Or find manuscripts by a particular author. Or locate serials, music or maps. You would use a library catalog that ...

While held at gunpoint, activist and librarian E.J. Josey learned an important lesson: how to never back down from racism. He was drafted into the Army in May 1943 and was trying to board a bus when ...

A new exhibit highlighting the history of Richmond's Jackson Ward neighborhood is opening at the Library of Virginia.

In California’s 175 years of statehood, there’s been one place dedicated to preserving the history of our state.

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