Important dates in the history of the downtown branch of the New Hanover County Public Library. 1901: Organization sponsored by U.S. steel baron Andrew Carnegie, which built more than 2,500 libraries ...

The Library: A Fragile History is ambitious in its scope and detail-oriented in its execution. The book traces the entire history of libraries, inclusive of private, state, public and academic ...

Writing a complete history of libraries is no easy task. One must address questions of definition, purpose, accessibility, and function. Not only are there no single answers to these questions, but ...

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 ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

Courtesy of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College Oxford (Credit: Courtesy of the Warden and Fellows of Merton College Oxford) Predating the Aztec Empire, Merton College Library in Oxford has been ...