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 ...
Renowned thinker, writer and speaker Ismail Serageldin discusses the restoration of the Library of Alexandria. Ismail Serageldin is the director of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and chairs the Boards of Directors for each of the Egyptian library’s affiliated research institutes and museums. ...
Last month, the Library of Congress finally finished a project they started all the way back in 2008: they finished digitizing an archive of 467 panoramic postcards from the early 1900′s. All of these postcards are now available online for interested ...
Green-Wood Cemetery In Brooklyn, State’s Largest Cemetery, Celebrates 175th Anniversary By ULA ILNYTZKY 30th May 1899: Several people stroll up a path at the Green-Wood Cemetery, located at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Fifth Street in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo by Museum ...
Published – May 06 2013 01:54PM EST BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A new partnership will allow U.S. scholars and the public to get a fuller view of the trove of books and records Ernest Hemingway left at ...
Little things slow down the process of putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library online: gold or silver in the illuminations, bindings that disintegrate if you open them, getting the synergy right. “It is important to realize ...
The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works ...
From the Library of Congress, a lecture by Dr. Emile Schrijver on the history of the Jewish book since the invention of printing. SPEAKER: Emile Schrijver EVENT DATE: 10/25/2012 FORMAT: Video + Captions RUNNING TIME: 60 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link ...
Webcast from the Library of Congress: Hassan Eltaher discusses the considerable cultural and historical project of reviving Egypt’s ancient library at Alexandria. SPEAKER: Hassan M. Eltaher EVENT DATE: 10/02/2012 FORMAT: Video + Captions RUNNING TIME: 65 minutes TRANSCRIPT: View Transcript (link ...
The papers of Ottilie Ethel Leopoldine “Tilly” Losch, Countess of Carnarvon, are housed in the Special Collections department of the BU Libraries. The Countess’s papers, original artwork, and memorabilia constitute what is known as the Tilly Losch Collection, and are part ...