This is Edmund Reinhardt’s membership card in the Society for the Protection of Birds (Bund für Vogelschutz) from 1920. Edmund was the brother of Max Reinhardt, the famous Austrian theater and film director. This membership card is from the Max Reinhardt ...

In the nineteenth century, hand-bookbinding was considered a trade. Only boys were eligible to enter the trade as apprentices and although women were heavily employed in commercial binderies they were not allowed to advance to higher branches of the trade. ...

Construction has begun on the creation of a permanent exhibit space dedicated to Edwin A. Link, his life and work, pulling materials from Link Collections, which are held in the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections. The permanent exhibit will bring those collections ...

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 ...