Cincinnati collections house books bound in human skin. The books gained the attention of John Hancock and George Washington.

Recipes can tell stories that go beyond taste, revealing how people lived, worked and ate throughout history. The Rare Books & Manuscripts Library at Ohio State houses a growing collection of ...

A 38-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for stealing a rare and historical Chinese manuscript from the UCLA ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A former librarian and a bookseller faced a judge Monday morning, pleading guilty to stealing and trafficking rare books from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The Allegheny ...

Tucked away on the upper floors of the Library of Michigan, the rare book vault is about 60 degrees with very low humidity. It’s not too cold, but compared to the mild temperatures throughout the rest ...

Penn Libraries has received $4.25 million — the largest gift ever from a living donor — to go toward the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The donor, who is a member of the Libraries’ Board of ...

The Rare Book and Manuscript Library, or RBML, at the University of Illinois is one of the largest publicly accessible collections of rare books in the country. In the era of banned books, the RBML ...

Gayle Cooper is one of the UVA Library's longest-tenured employees, having worked there since the Nixon administration.

Although you might head to the library looking for your next page-turner or to hit the books, the Rare Books and Manuscripts Library wants to give you a look back at history with its annual Preview ...

Few libraries on Earth boast more literary treasures than the Friar Francisco de Burgoa Library in Oaxaca and its not shy ...

The Rare Book Room’s twentieth anniversary provided us with the perfect opportunity to revisit the exhibits that have been housed in this beautiful space. This retrospective exhibit features only a ...

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the rare book library and literary archive of the Yale University Library in New Haven, Connecticut. Situated on Yale University's Hewitt Quadrangle, ...