Barack Obama’s is dividing opinions, as others have before THE BUILDING of Barack Obama’s presidential library in Chicago ought to be uncontroversial. Unlike many other such libraries, it will not be maintained by American taxpayers. The Obama Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by the 44th president, will foot the bill …
The Obama Presidential Center promises to be a presidential library like no other. The four-building, 19-acre “working center for citizenship,” set to be built in a public park on the South Side of Chicago, will include a 235-foot-high “museum tower,” a two-story event space, an athletic center, a recording studio, …
A 1787 first-edition book signed by Thomas Jefferson. A rare copy of “The Journal of Major George Washington.” A version of Isaac Newton’s “Principia,” among the most influential books in science, said to be worth $900,000. The archivist who oversaw a special collection of rare books at the central library …
In this Jan. 25, 2018, photo, books marked with red stickers, meaning they might be removed from the shelves, are displayed at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania library in Indiana, Pa. INDIANA, Pa. (AP) — A library without books? Not quite, but as students abandon the stacks in favor of …
There are beautiful old libraries and then there is the Abbey Library of Saint Gall, which may not only be one of the oldest surviving libraries in Europe but certainly one of the most beautiful. According to the Abbey of Saint Gallen’s website, the earliest evidence of a library collection on the …
It comes four years after a group of scholars sued to halt a previous reno plan The renovation of the New York Public Library’s main branch, long in the works, may finally be moving forward. The NYPL’s board of trustees voted yesterday to approve a new $317 million master plan, developed by …
It’s not going to fit in a scanner. Archives and libraries are often tasked with digitizing old books in their collections to preserve them and make them more accessible to the public. Most, even very large volumes, fit in scanners created just for books, but what happens when you …
As libraries continue to transform themselves from places to check out books to civic centers with cutting edge technology, how will they meet expanding funding needs? Some library leaders say one answer is a national endowment. APRIL 14, 2017 —As knowledge moves from pages to pixels, many of America’s public …
After news emerged about an underground reading room in Damascus, Fiona Macdonald discovers the places where writing has been hidden for centuries. Beneath the streets of a suburb of Damascus, rows of shelves hold books that have been rescued from bombed-out buildings. Over the past four years, during the siege …
The country has a public library for every 1,971 people — 10 times the U.S. rate — and a population that still borrows and reads printed books. PRAGUE — In the age of Amazon and the internet, the idea of going to a public library to borrow a book may …
From carrier pigeons to comic books. Do me a favor while you read these opening lines. Pick up your phone, and open up your photos app. Scroll through the many pictures of you, your dumb friends, and your crazy family. Pick a photo—it can be any photo, really—and blow it …
Pamper yourself in these elegant drawing rooms at sea with thousands of books to choose from. A few decades ago, a nicely appointed library was one of a cruise ship’s star attractions. But then came climbing walls, ice-skating rinks, hand-carved carousels, 4-D theaters, zip lines and surfing simulators. Plus e-readers, …
