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 ...

How can you spot the gaps in your collection and ensure that it reflects the needs of your community? Diversity audits have been a go-to approach for many libraries, but the data analysis can ...

Special Collections at BYU houses some of the rarest and most interesting items the library has to offer. Trevor Alvord is one of Special Collections’ curators. “I curate the 21st-Century Latter-day ...

The days when special collections and archives were hidden away from the public in antiquated rooms or sections of the library are gone. Special collections now require special architectural design.

Preus Library contains physical collections of over 320,000 volumes. The collection also includes Periodicals and a variety of more specialized resources. Most of the Preus Library materials circulate ...

US history, including its culture, economy, and political life, has been shaped by the movement of people and communities, ...

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 ...

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 ...