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 ...

Historical Chinese documents describing Tibet during China‘s Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368) and showing the ancient financial and messaging service of the period, have won a major UNESCO recognition. A meeting of the International Advisory Committee of the “Memory of the World Register” has decided ...

“We have published all the Politburo materials from our archives for the years 1919–32, as well as all the materials we have from the so-called Joseph Stalin fund – that is, every single document relating to Stalin’s life and work ...

The Swiss government today started a new Internet portal to help claimants, museums and researchers track down art looted by the Nazis that has found its way to Switzerland, an art-market hub before and during World War II. The new portal offers advice ...

Prof. Pei-heng Yan presents his works of calligraphy to Dean John M. Meador, Jr. of the Binghamton University Libraries. Professor Pei-heng Yan presented a gift of original calligraphy to the Binghamton University Libraries on June 11, 2013. Yan is a ...