The Yale Center for British Art has now made available through its online collection nearly 70,000 images of works of art in the public domain that are compliant with the International Image ...

Valued at $21 million, the Honresfield Library includes rare material from Jane Austen, Walter Scott, the Brontë sisters. A 1841 birthday gift for Anne Brontë with a written message from her sister ...

For more than 100 years, the British Library kept thousands of its dirtiest books locked away from the rest of its collections. All volumes deemed to be in need of extra safeguarding so that members ...

Britain’s national library made the first major steps in its recovery process after a ransomware group took down its website and online catalog. By Jenny Gross Reporting from London The British ...

The scanning race has started: Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement today to scan 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search ...

The three-year collaboration includes a programme for Yuewen writers to see some of the iconic items in the British Library's collection, attend creative workshops, and engage in co-creation digital ...

The Finding Guides in this volume contain entries for primary materials, collections of sources, and some reference or research aids. They do not list secondary works, standard printed sources such as ...

Some may think of globes as navigational tools, but really, they are closer to time capsules. From the earliest nomadic cultures to the so-called Age of Exploration, and beyond, the ways in which ...

Sotheby’s has agreed to postpone a highly anticipated auction as a consortium tries to raise $21 million to acquire a “lost” private library for the British public. By Jennifer Schuessler Sotheby’s ...