The Great Library of Alexandria is one of the most famous institutions of the ancient world—but what, if anything, remains of it today? In this video, we explore the history of the library, what led ...

In October 1731, a fire at London’s Ashburnham House destroyed portions of the Old Royal Library and the Cotton library. Fortunately, the Old Royal Library’s most precious object, the Codex ...

Callimachus, the Ancient Greek genius, influenced library organization and the poetic preference for shorter verses over long ...

Suppose you wanted to read “”The Seventh Regiment Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War 1862-1865,”” a book that went out of print more than a century ago. Where would you go? You could try the ...

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“But libraries, museums, and schools are fragile institutions; they cannot long survive violent assaults. A way of life was dying.” That quote is from Stephen Greenblatt’s book “The Swerve.” He’s ...

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