Cuevas de los Tayos, 'Cave of the Oilbirds,' isn't famous for bird-watching; it supposedly contains, or contained, a legendary golden library.

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this. A week ago, the Trump administration fired the longtime librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden. The man ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not really be to blame. The 1876 painting Incendie Alexandrie by Hermann Goll ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...

The only thing that you absolutely have to know is the location of the library,” Albert Einstein once wrote — a thought that ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

This exquisite volume from geographer Cheshire (Atlas of Finance) shares hidden treasures contained within the University College London’s Map Library. On a research trip, Cheshire discovered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Scott Hutcheson teaches leadership at Purdue University. Organizations are filled with discrete pockets of knowledge—specialized ...