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New Yorkers Can Pick Up Free At-Home Covid Tests at Select Museums and Libraries

by Jasmine Liu February 22, 2022February 22, 2022

Tests are available at the Brooklyn Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and several branches of the city’s three library systems, among other cultural sites.

Posted inOpinion

Just like Museums, Libraries Aren’t Neutral

by Fuchsia Hart November 23, 2021November 24, 2021

There are many structural inequalities baked into the Library of Congress classification system, contributing to the further marginalization of already marginalized groups.

Posted inArt

A Lock of Beethoven’s Hair and Maya Angelou’s Papers Are Among NYPL’s Treasures

by Valentina Di Liscia September 29, 2021September 30, 2021

The exhibition, on view for the next 75 years, features 250 rare items from the library’s collection.

Posters outside the Doty Fine Arts Building at the University of Texas at Austin (photo by and courtesy Abigail Sharp)
Posted inArt

The Disappearance of Books Threatens to Erode Fine Arts Libraries

by Sarah E. Bond March 21, 2018August 4, 2021

Two major public universities have recently moved to radically downsize or entirely relocate their fine arts libraries, which is in keeping with broader trends of libraries doing away with books.

Posted inHistory

North America’s Largest Witchcraft Collection Has Its First Major Exhibition

by Allison Meier October 31, 2017October 31, 2017

The first major exhibit on the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection opens Halloween, and explores the persecution of women through its historic objects.

Posted inArt

A Project on the Arctic’s Vanishing Ice Launches with an Olafur Eliasson Talk

by Allison Meier October 5, 2017October 5, 2017

The Arctic Imagination project is a collaboration between six international libraries that draws attention to the Arctic’s disappearing ice.

Posted inArt

An Archivist Sets Out to Save the Material History of Video Games

by Allison Meier May 2, 2017May 2, 2017

Launched in February by Frank Cifaldi, the Video Game History Foundation is racing to preserve ephemeral gaming material and the physical documentation of video games.

Posted inArt

The Lost Art of Library Card Catalogues

by Claire Voon April 4, 2017May 23, 2022

The art of writing card catalogue entries may be dying, but they still tell us a lot about our data past.

Posted inBooks

360-Degree Panoramas of Grand American Libraries

by Allison Meier March 14, 2017March 14, 2017

Thomas R. Schiff’s photographs capture the American library as it transformed from a members-only space into a public institution.

Posted inArt

Penn Libraries Acquires Benjamin Franklin’s First Broadside, a Skull-Adorned Elegy

by Allison Meier January 24, 2017January 25, 2017

In 1723, a teenaged Benjamin Franklin created his first printing piece, a broadside elegy recently acquired by the University of Pennsylvania.

Posted inArt

500 Hundred Years of Failed Utopias

by Allison Meier December 13, 2016December 15, 2016

USC Libraries considers what utopia means today, 500 years after Sir Thomas More coined the term for his idealized fictional island.

Posted inNews

Library of Congress and Digital Public Library of America Launch Partnership with Maps

by Allison Meier December 7, 2016December 6, 2016

The Library of Congress has joined the Digital Public Library of America as a content hub and is sharing around 5,000 objects from its map collections.

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