Special Collections at BYU houses some of the rarest and most interesting items the library has to offer. Trevor Alvord is ...

Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...

Building the collection is a core activity in any library. A school library collection is built to support the curriculum and provide for voluntary reading; an academic library collection is developed ...

Cornell, Spiegelman and Warhol browsed the famous collection of images in the New York Public Library. Now a century of serendipitous discovery will come to an end if the collection is closed off to ...

San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) is celebrating avid reader and Spurs star Victor Wembanyama with a curated collection inspired by his favorite science fiction books. The latest: The Central Library ...

A stunning, modern wing of the Royal Library of Copenhagen, added in 1999. Ludovic Maisant/Corbis Libraries have existed in some form for as long as books themselves. More than just repositories of ...

Special collections libraries are a strange and wonderful world, full of odd collections and even odder researchers. We chose a handful of our favorites. This special collections library at Bowling ...

The Museum’s Library and Archives maintains the world’s finest collection of natural history literature, artwork and manuscripts. Whether you’re looking for incunabula from 1469 or cutting-edge ...