This exhibit features various gifts to Binghamton University and is a tribute to the generosity of our donors. Featured are works of calligraphy, scrolls, woodblock prints, and books. East Asian Gifts will be on display throughout the Fall 2013 semester and ...
Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives will be closing at 12:00 noon on Thursday, September 19, 2013 as we will be hosting the Special Collections Roundtable of Upstate New York. If you would like to attend the Roundtable, ...
John Hessler discusses Renaissance cartographer Johannes Schöner. Hessler is senior cartographic reference specialist in the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of “The Naming of America: ...
The countess finished dictating her letter and peered out the hotel window at the snow swirling onto Fifth Avenue. Highclere Castle seemed a world away from Manhattan, and yet she wanted to be kept apprised of all that was going ...
How do you read a two-thousand-year-old manuscript that has been erased, cut up, written on and painted over? With a powerful particle accelerator, of course! Ancient books curator William Noel tells the fascinating story behind the Archimedes palimpsest, a Byzantine ...
For the Dog Days of August A Dog’s Tale by Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens). New York, London : Harper & Brothers. 1904. Call number: PS 1322 .D6 1904. Special Collections, Rare Book Collection. In honor of the dog days of summer, A Dog’s Tale ...
By Larry Dignan for Between the Lines Wroclaw University Library, based in Warsaw, Poland, is partnering with IBM to digitize 800,000 European manuscripts, books and maps that date back to the Middle Ages. The project aims to create the largest digital archive of ...
The true means of establishing public happiness. : A sermon, delivered on the 7th of July, 1795, before the Connecticut Society of Cincinnati is our featured book for July 2013. This short work (approx. 40 pages) was printed in New Haven, Connecticut in ...
The story is told of Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and John Adams sharing a bed in a room with one window while staying in a New Jersey tavern in 1776. Adams, afraid of the night air, closed the window. “Oh!” ...
The complete archive of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy is to be digitised and put online for free public use. The project, to be known as All Tolstoy in One Click, is the brainchild of Tolstoy’s great-granddaughter Fyokla Tolstoya, and will take ...