Libraries have served as guardians of knowledge for thousands of years, preserving ideas that might otherwise have disappeared forever. From handwritten clay tablets to modern digital archives, they ...

Countless histories can be found on library shelves, including histories of libraries themselves. Reading library history can help us not only avoid repeating history but also better understand how ...

U.S. Presidential Libraries are a unique network of archives and museums dedicated to preserving the papers, records, and artifacts of American presidents since Herbert Hoover. Its dedication took ...

The Library: A Fragile History is ambitious in its scope and detail-oriented in its execution. The book traces the entire history of libraries, inclusive of private, state, public and academic ...

From 1887 to 1922, the University of Wyoming Library was housed in Old Main, the university’s first and only building when the institution opened. Beginning with a donation of 300 books from Charles E ...

Kathleen de la Peña McCook, distinguished university professor at the University of South Florida library school in Tampa, was cited by her former mentee, Alicia K. Long, for being “a tireless ...

Want to take a deep dive into American history? Every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover (and a few before) has a library dedicated to his life and time in office. These presidential libraries are ...

Joe Biden is leaving the White House, but his work is far from done. The next task: building a presidential library. Presidents construct libraries to "house their papers, records and historical ...

In the Bossier Parish Libraries History Center, we have oral histories of Bossier Parish residents who share their memories of how things were back in the olden days. Among those in the collection is ...