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Harvard Has Decided To Remove A Book Cover Made Of Human Skin From Its Library
The library at Harvard University is home to more than 20 million books, but its collection has taken a tiny hit now that it's no longer home to a ...


Starting a Library in 2024: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities
In 2019, there were a little more than 392 visits to the library for every 100 people in the United States. The number of people visiting libraries peaked in ...


Harvard University removes human skin used in binding of 19th-century book
The original owner, French physician Dr. Ludovic Bouland, who died in 1933, took the skin from a deceased female psychiatric patient at a hospital where he worked and used it to bind a copy of Arsène ...


This massive Swedish underground library documents paranormal phenomena
In Sweden, the Archives for the Unexplained claims to be the world’s biggest library of paranormal phenomena, with 4.2km of shelves ...


Bills targeting book bans raise concerns about the penalties libraries could face
Bills against book bans are gaining traction in state legislatures around the country — and with them have come worries about the potentially negative impact on libraries themselves.


Graduate student library workers fight for those who will come after them in Illinois
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ... PGAs are unionizing in a sector where unionized workplaces are rare. With only 26% of library workers in the United States unionized, PGAs are ...


April programs at Morristown Centennial Library
Here are some of the upcoming programs at Morristown Centennial Library, 7 Richmond St. Register for programs at 802-888-3853, or email where noted. Information: [email protected], ...


University of Exeter: Historian Unveils Startling New Book Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
A powerful new history book that seeks to demystify the notorious Ku Klux Klan has been published by an expert in modern American society at the University of Exeter.The Full History of the Ku Klux Kl ...


Southern University hosts ribbon cutting, celebrates new Patent and Trademark Resource Center
Southern University of Baton Rouge became the fourth HBCU in the country to have a patent and trademark center in the John B. Cade Library on campus.


What Libraries Risk When They Go Digital
Digitization has democratized and widened library access, but the cyberattack on the British Library shows that it is not without risks.


A pioneer in Library and Information Science education of Sri Lanka
Prof Jayasiri Lankage born 10th September 1936 at Kekanadura, Matara, studied the GCE (AL) from Ambalangoda Dharmasoka Vidyalaya in 1957 and entered Vidyodaya University (Presently Sri Jayewardenepura ...


Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the ...