Digest
Walt Whitman wrote, “I am large, I contain multitudes.” He wrote it as part of his magnum opus, Leaves of Grass, arguably the greatest volume of poetry ever produced in the United States.
This year’s Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, which champions women book collectors, will be the last.
When David Walsh was seven years old, his library card was his “best friend.” Growing up in Glenorchy, Tasmania, near Hobart, he haunted the local two-room library, where most children were allowed
The bookplate’s history is almost as long as the printed book itself.
Jackie Gleason was very much into the occult.
Walk toward the main reading room at the Library of Congress (LOC) in Washington, DC, and you’ll see drawers packed with cards.
For the first time since its 1948 acquisition by the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC), Henri Matisse’s Jazz is on view in its entirety.
Palm-leaf (lontar) writing has existed on the Indonesian archipelago for over 2,000 years.
There are wizards at Cambridge University Library. They’re using multispectral imaging (MSI), CT scans, and 3D modeling to peer deep into a book at their holdings.
As long as humans employ courier services, from pigeons to state-maintained networks, artists harness these systems for their work. The earliest piece of mail art may be lost to history (some argue…
