The Long Beach Public Library’s collection of vintage periodicals represents a wealth of information for those interested in local history, but the task of preserving that knowledge will require ...

REFERRING to the letter on “Library Stocks of Periodicals” published in NATURE of July 24, Mr. C. C. Barnard writes: “I inadvertently failed to appreciate the proposals of a committee of the ...

Here’s an unpleasant fact: If the cost of People magazine had risen as fast as the cost of academic library periodicals since 1990, its subscription would cost $150 per year. In this National Library ...

Joseph Stalin's intellectual life and biography are explored here through the prism of his personal library. Arguably the 20th century's most self-consciously learned dictator, he "valued ideas as ...