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Pico Rivera, California

Kater-Crafts Bookbinders

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.
A sampling of Houghton Library's hair collection, including Keat's
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Untangling the Secrets of One of Harvard’s Historic Hair Collections

The university's Houghton Library is home to a number of famous tresses.
Cara Giaimo November 20, 2017
Akin Free Library.
Pawling, New York

Akin Free Library

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
Cabinetlandia library.
Deming, New Mexico

Cabinetlandia

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.
Yangzhou Shi, China

Yangzhou Zhongshuge

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.
A selection from the Beatles exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The Library and Archives, on a nearby campus, houses the Hall's artifacts and research materials.
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A Day in the Life of a Rock 'n' Roll Librarian

It's not all finding secret notes from Keith Richards... but some of it is.
Cara Giaimo November 6, 2017
The oldest reading room at the Bodleian Library, in Oxford.
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The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries

We asked some of our favorite libraries: What's the oldest item in your collection?
Sarah Laskow October 26, 2017
Two pages from the Luneborch Prayer Book, a rare 15th-century illuminated manuscript that was mysteriously returned to the George Peabody Library 40 years after it had gone missing.
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The Saga of a Long-Lost 15th-Century Illuminated Prayer Book

The Luneborch manuscript vanished, and was lost for decades only to reappear again in a mysterious package.
Vittoria Traverso October 25, 2017
Just a bit of the BPL's 200,000-piece record collection.
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Digitizing the Boston Public Library's Forgotten Record Collection

It will take years, but all 200,000 pieces of vinyl discovered in a basement will one day be available to the public.
Ashawnta Jackson October 24, 2017
Auckland Central Library has a vast collection of books, as well as computers with free internet access.
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Why a New Zealand Library's Books Kept Vanishing, Then Reappearing

Homeless readers had been tucking volumes away so they could return to them the next day.
Natasha Frost October 18, 2017
Jeweled cover, <em>Lindau Gospels</em>, c. 875.
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See the Most Luxurious Medieval Manuscripts in Existence

Feel free to judge these books by their covers.
Anika Burgess October 12, 2017
The 'electric dynamo' book conveying apparatus.
Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress Book Conveyor Tunnel

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.
View into the reading room.
Austin, Texas

The Harry Ransom Center

The upstairs reading room is packed with millions of rare books, literary manuscripts, and historical treasures.
Collector Phil Snow donated his collection of 26 Flexible Flyers to the Moorsetown, NJ library.
Moorestown, New Jersey

Flexible Flyer Museum

An unusual assortment of steerable wooden sleds is on display in a library in New Jersey where they were first invented.
Edinburgh, Scotland

Library of Mistakes

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.
The original Winnie the Pooh & Pals.
New York, New York

The Real Winnie the Pooh & Pals

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.
An adaptation of Banksy's "Flower Bomber," this depicts a librarian in protest, throwing Margaret Atwood's <em>A Handmaid's Tale</em>.
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The Radical Reference Librarians Who Use Info to Challenge Authority

An unshushable social movement is afoot.
Natalie Zarrelli October 3, 2017
The interior.
Sydney, Australia

White Rabbit Gallery

It's said to be one of the most significant collections of contemporary Chinese art in the world.