University Library News

“Ten years ago today, a private American collector purchased the Archimedes Palimpsest. Since that time he has guided and funded the project to conserve, image,...

Jay Walker, 52-year-old founder of the Internet think-tank Walker Digital (known for Priceline.com), has built a library celebrating human imagination. Books and artifacts from a...

Downtown Kansas City Library Garage, Kansas City, Missouri New 152,864 SF, 485-car garage adjacent to the recently renovated downtown Kansas City library. An exterior treatment creates...

“Hidden in the Austrian Alps some 250 kilometres (155 miles) southwest of Vienna, Admont’s Benedictine monastery, which was founded in 1074 and spreads over 270...

“The 230 surviving First Folios are now the most minutely studied published works in history. The folio is unusual in that two centuries of records...

“Scholars of the 20th-century writer Franz Kafka were in a state of suspense last night at the news that the remains of his estate, which...

“Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient...

“The Shakespeare Quartos Archive , a freely-accessible, high-resolution digital collection of the 75 pre-1641 quarto editions of Shakespeare’s plays—a joint project of the Folger Shakespeare...

The manuscripts in Arabic and African languages cover almost every conceivable subject from history and medicine to law and human rights, from astronomy and philosophy...

The Curious Expeditions weblog issue of September 6 carries images of cathedrals of the book from all over the world. Click here to start.