Smithsonian Magazine

Go Behind the Scenes at an Iconic Irish Library as Staff Move 700,000 Historical Treasures Into Storage

Trinity College Dublin’s Old Library will close for restoration and construction in 2027. What does that mean for the medieval manuscripts and books housed there? Yvonne Gordon In the Old Library at ...
CNN

Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation

Tens of thousands of centuries-old books are being pulled from the shelves of a medieval abbey in Hungary in an effort to save them from a beetle infestation that could wipe out centuries of history.
CNN

In 1973 a library book was checked out. 51 years later it’s finally been returned

In July of 1899, “The Early Work of Aubrey Beardsley,” was added to the collection of the Worcester Public Library. The book, a compilation of illustrations by a British artist and poet, remained in ...
The New York Times

Rebuilding a Historic Jewish Library, Book by Book

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...