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Vatican Library digitizes ancient manuscripts, makes them available for free
One of the oldest libraries on the planet is digitizing its archive of ancient manuscripts — and they’re all available to view free of charge.
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Meet The Men Trying To Immortalize Video Games
A group of passionate archivists are trying to make the Library of Congress the standard-bearer for video game preservation. It won't be easy.
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Abandoned Walmart is Now America's Largest 1-Floor Library
There are thousands of abandoned big box stores sitting empty all over America, including hundreds of former Walmart stores. With each store taking up enough space for 2.5 football fields, Walmart’s use of more than 698 million square feet of land in the U.S. is one of its biggest environmental impacts. But at least one of those buildings has been transformed into something arguably much more useful: the nation’s largest library.
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Before Google ... Who Knew?
If Google can't answer your question these days, who you gonna call? A librarian, of course. Librarians continue to be cool. On a contemporary TNT series, The Librarians are super heroes. For the past couple of years, "librarian" has popped up on the Forbes list of Least Stressful Jobs. And even in this Age of the Search Engine, librarians keep making new discoveries.
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The Best Places to Find Books at a Bargain (or For Free)
Information is power, and reading more enhances your knowledge and the connections your brain makes between the things you learn. Even so, books cost money. Your budget may not be as flexible as you'd like, but even on a lean budget you can read more. Here's how.
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What the Web Said Yesterday
The Web is continually erasing its past. The Wayback Machine aims to preserve its tracks. Jill Lepore reports.
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A Moscow Library Containing Rare UN Documents, Ancient Slavic Texts, and 14 Million books, Burns
The Moscow library known as INION—the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences—went up in flames on the evening of Jan. 29.
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Iraqi libraries ransacked
When the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria invaded the Central Library of Mosul last month, it was on a mission to destroy a familiar enemy: other people's ideas. Residents say the terrorists smashed the locks that had protected the biggest repository of learning in the northern Iraq town, and loaded about 2,000 books — including children's stories, poetry, philosophy and tomes on sports, health, culture and science — into six pickups. They left only Islamic texts.
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High security as Four Magna Carta Manuscripts United for First Time
The four surviving copies of the 1215 Magna Carta have gone on display in London to mark the landmark document's 800th anniversary.
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Saving Human Knowledge at 800 Pages an Hour
Inside the Internet Archive's book scanning centre.
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The 15 Coolest Bookstores From Around the World
Curl up with a new book—or catch a reading or concert—at these thriving independent bookstores from Buenos Aires to Brooklyn. Rumor has it J. K. Rowling was inspired by Livraria Lello while writing Harry Potter (and teaching English) in Portugal. It doesn’t take long to appreciate Lello’s potential as muse: a stained-glass atrium puts the spotlight on the bookshop’s deep-red staircase, spectacular enough to stop you in your tracks.
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Princeton University is Bequeathed $300 Million Rare Book Library, Largest Donation in School's History
The Scheide Library contains the 1455 Gutenberg Bible, the original printing of the Declaration of Independence and Shakespeare's first, second, third and fourth folios.
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ISIS Burns 8000 Rare Books and Manuscripts in Mosul
While the world was watching the Academy Awards ceremony, the people of Mosul were watching a different show. They were horrified to see ISIS members burn the Mosul public library. Notables in Mosul tried to persuade ISIS members to spare the library, but they failed. The former assistant director of the library Qusai All Faraj said that the Mosul Public Library was established in 1921, the same year that saw the birth of the modern Iraq.
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Yale Is Building an Incredible Collection of VHS Tapes
At the Yale University library, you'll find a collection of Egyptian papyri and a set of Babylonian clay tablets that date back to 1750 B.C. To those rarities, the school is now adding a new breed of rare valuables: Video Home System tapes, or VHS tapes. Last week the university acquired 2,700 movies on VHS, making it the first institution in the country to treat videotapes as cultural artifacts.
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How do you design the library of the future?
ARE you sitting comfortably? Here is the Story of the Decline of the Academic Library. Once Upon A Time libraries were the gatekeepers to most of the information students and academics needed. Books had the information and libraries had the books. Then one day the Big Bad Internet came along and made hundreds of millions of books, articles and manuscripts freely available to anyone with access to a computer.
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A Library Made Entirely Of Books Is Coming To Bay Area Book Festival
How do you imagine the perfect library? Similar to Hansel & Gretel’s house of chocolate – only made of books? Yes, it’s happening! You’ll have the opportunity to read in such a library, enjoying your favorite activity with hundreds of other bookworms, on June 6th and 7th, 2015 at the Bay Area Book Festival.
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America’s ‘national library’ is lacking in leadership, yet another report finds
The Government Accountability Office says the Library of Congress lacks the leadership to remedy its problems.
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How others can expand access to open source hardware
In this article, I'll share some ideas for how schools, libraries, and makerspaces can similarly expand access to open source hardware.
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Object Lesson
Why we need physical books. By William Giraldi
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Brooklyn Author Recreates Borges' Library of Babel as Infinite Website
Jonathan Basile, a Brooklyn author and programmer, has recreated Jorge Luis Borges' masterpiece 'Library of Babel' as an infinite website.
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