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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 ...