Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...
Why do people collect things? The motivations are as varied as the objects people collect. Perhaps it’s loyalty to a sports team, for instance, or an obsessive desire to accumulate a single kind of ...
School libraries come in many forms. They may be book sanctuaries, hangout spots for learners during noninstructional time, technologically advanced media centers full of activity tubs and work tables ...
The newly renovated Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library features expanded study space, increased natural lighting, and a revitalized collection meant to spark curiosity and inspire scholarship.
The Hope College Library is not part of a depository program for any government publications. Materials produced by any unit of the government (federal or state) are purchased “as appropriate.” Only ...
On the curator’s table in the Charles E. Young Research Library lay a book over four centuries old. Devin Fitzgerald, curator of rare books and history of printing at the UCLA Library Special ...
A panoramic map of the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, MO. Library of Congress Map lovers rejoice: soon, thousands of maps from the Library of Congress’ collection will be free to gaze at online.