It has been more than 70 years since the end of the war, but emotions have been running high in France since the government announced it would open the archives of the so-called Vichy regime that collaborated with Nazi Germany. The ...
Monday, December 21 – Thursday, December 24, 2015 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Friday, December 25, 2015 – Sunday, January 3, 2016 CLOSED Monday, January 4 – Friday, January 22, 2016 ...
Aynur de Rouen, Curator of the Vera Beaudin Saeedpour Kurdish Library & Museum Collection, presented as part of a panel at the international academic workshop “Lines of Identity: Middle Eastern Diaspora in North America” at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, ...
“The long-awaited Broome County Veterans Memorial Arena (“the Arena”) opened on August 29, 1973. An exhibition hockey game was played a monthe later before 4,620 curious spectators to officially introduce the sport to the area. Then came the regular season, ...
Out Now: December 2015 (V.41 (4)) issue of IFLA Journal IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal ...
Go Ahead, Judge a Book by Its Cover Four of the best contemporary bookbinders employ centuries-old techniques to create enduring works of art. Dec. 2, 2015, The Wall Street Journal Slide Show Seen above: ‘I start by reading the book ...
The Beauvais Missal is one of the best-known victims of mid-twentieth-century American biblioclasm, serving as a perfect example of just how great a loss is incurred when a codex is dismembered and its leaves scattered. It also serves as a ...
Special Collections will be closed Thursday, November 26-Sunday, November 29 for the Thanksgiving break. We will re-open at 10:00 a.m. on Monday, November 30. Enjoy your break! ...
Using an off-the-shelf pencil eraser and electrostatic technology first pioneered 2,500 years ago, University of York scientists have settled one of the great puzzles of pre-Gutenberg commercial publishing. Pocket Bibles, painstakingly inscribed by hand in their tens of thousands in the universities ...
Marilyn Gaddis Rose, 85, distinguished service professor of comparative literature and co-director of the Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP), died Sunday, Nov. 15. Gaddis Rose received her bachelor’s degree in English from Central Methodist College in Fayette, Mo. in ...