Sometime around the year 1491, the German cartographer Henricus Martellus produced an influential map of the world, which was likely used by Christopher Columbus on his 1492 expedition to the Americas. Naturally, Martellus made sure to note all the wildest rumors about ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Guillotines and numbing satire figure strongly in an archive of images from the French Revolution, made available by Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France About 14,000 high-resolution images are in the set, which is divided into Parliamentary Archives and Images of the ...
Undelivered letters shed light on 17th-century society by Maev Kennedy Thousands of pieces of correspondence, many still unopened, were stored away by Dutch postmaster and are now being examined by academics The collection includes letters from aristocrats, spies, merchants, publishers, ...
Would you like to learn more about the history of Binghamton University? Did you know that the University Archives is housed in Bartle Library? The University Archives houses a large collection of materials relating to Binghamton University, including publications printed on ...
What Is #AskAnArchivist Day? It’s an opportunity to ask archivists from around the country and the world questions about archives, collections, using archives and the work of archivists! How Does It Work? On October 1, archivists around the country will ...