Access to libraries as critical element of social justice
We walk past glass-shuttered shelves holding books about India’s prehistory, a translation of A.R. Krishna Shastri’s Vachana ...
‘These pieces are phenomenal’: Local poets put library’s ‘precious’ archival items at forefront in ‘From the Vault’
Shields said there is something beautiful about the book as a printed object, and many of the pieces in the collections, ...
When the subject is architecture, all roads lead to Palm Beach ... and the cheese puffs
Show examines the European influences that shaped the island’s distinctive style during its development as a winter retreat ...
What’s around the next bend? That’s what he writes about
After a 32-year career at the Deseret News, Lynn Arave has become Utah’s chronicler of the quirky, the offbeat and the ...
IPS Commissioner Yaakobi files urgent request for return of cell phone
Chief Commissioner Kobi Yaakobi filed an urgent request to the Jerusalem Magistrat ...
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State paid €2.3m for Bonar Law map collection
The State paid €2.3m for the Andrew and Charlotte Bonar Law collection of maps earlier this year, the annual report of the National Library of Ireland reveals. Announcing the acquisition last May, the ...
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Detroit-area library says Chicago man can keep overdue baseball book — 50 years later
Chuck Hildebrandt, 63, visited the library while in town for Thanksgiving, carrying a book titled "Baseball's Zaniest Stars." ...
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Quiet solitude with a book, 1960
Paris, July 16, 1960: A patron sits on a stepstool by one of the large windows in the American Library in Paris, daylight ...
Man tried to return overdue book 50 years late — but the library wasn’t buying it
Chuck Hildebrandt wanted to do the right thing and return his overdue sports book to the library 50 years late. The library wanted no part of it.
From the Archives: Polly Mellen Opens Up Her Beloved Connecticut Home to Vogue
On one level, a visit to Polly Allen Mellen feels like a visit to your cool granny—if Granny were recently in a Gap ad and ...
Their mother inherited a priceless archive. The battle to control it tore the family apart.
An imprisoned duchess, a palace showdown, and a death-bed wedding: inside the bitter battle over a priceless historical ...
Black educators were being overlooked, so Clearview created a nonprofit to celebrate them
CLEARVIEW ― Dark-skinned Oklahoma children were denied an equitable public education for the better part of the 20th century.