I will travel the world for a library. And it's not because I'm entrenched in any scholarly research-I'm not an academic. I'm a nerd. I love books, I love architecture, I love a good backstory ...

Books and the wealth of information they contain were once available only to the wealthy. The cost of books meant that the ...

Another interesting thing that both the library ... with the great mosque, which would bear the same name: Qarawiyyin. This mosque remains one of the largest in the world due to its capacity ...

Now, thanks to a government initiative and a restoration led by Chaouni, one of the world’s oldest libraries is accessible to both tourists and locals alike. —Merrill Fabry ...

C| England: some 30 great libraries severely hit. (The University of London alone lost far more than the 100,000 volumes destroyed in one of its main libraries.) The Bulletin recalls the world’s ...

As a scholar of libraries in the Greek and Roman world, I was struck by the similarities ... The Ulpian Library, a great library in the center of Rome, was founded by Emperor Trajan, who ruled ...

The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt was the most famous library in the ancient world, flourishing for centuries before falling into ruin. Experts say public libraries in the west really took ...