Countless histories can be found on library shelves, including histories of libraries themselves. Reading library history can help us not only avoid repeating history but also better understand how ...

From the North Korean surprise invasion across the 38th parallel into South Korea on June 25, 1950, that immediately triggered United Nations intervention to the Armistice Agreeme ...

It would be hard to imagine growing up without a public library. No matter if you are in a large city or a small town, the public library has always been a place to discover new worlds. Within the ...

In March of 2008, the Joanne E. Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Family Technology Center, and Orradre Library (colloquially known as the Learning Commons, and/or University Library) opened its ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

Milwaukee Public Library’s Central Library branch opened in 1898, designed by local architects as a home to both the Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Central Library was ...

Last summer, someone from the Netherlands contacted the Tyler Public Library after finding an engraved World War II canteen belonging to a soldier who was buried in and whose relatives reside in Tyler ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

Sue Bartow was already familiar with the Smith Library of Regional History when she took a course on genealogy through Miami University’s Institute for Learning in Retirement. She’d been there several ...