
From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life
The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1575, by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often considered the world’s first atlas. The library has two
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The Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, 1575, by Abraham Ortelius (1527-1598) is often considered the world’s first atlas. The library has two

These books top PEN America’s list of the books most often challenged and banned from school classrooms in the U.S.

The stacks at Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country. Aram Boghosian

Paul Ninson of Ghana embraced photography as a career — and was inspired to create a library of photobooks about

The daughter of the late writer Naguib Mahfouz, Umm Kulthum Mahfouz, has donated his library to Bibliotheca Alexandrina in order to make it readily available to the visitors, researchers, and scholars. Naguib Mahfouz’s library includes approximately 1,500 books, ranging from his novels to other books, dictionaries and encyclopedias acquired by the Nobel Prize laureate, or …
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