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Nathalie Joachim of Flutronix plays flute on "Have and Hold," which will conclude the Library of Congress Boccaccio Project series on June 26, 2020.
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The 'Boccaccio Project' Is Capturing the Music of Quarantine

The series joins a growing list of real-time archival initiatives.
Matthew Taub June 17, 2020
libraries

The Library-Themed Livestream Where Birds Stretch Their Wings

A little "library" that's literally for the birds.
Claire Voon June 12, 2020
A root system simulating a sea serpent, sprouting leaves and buds, on 15th-century parchment.
libraries

Explore the Whimsical Flora of a 15th-Century Italian Folio

An herbal a day will take the green from your gills away—and perhaps apply it to your thumb.
Isaac Schultz May 28, 2020
Verona, Italy

Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.
Inside the library.
Montreal, Québec

Osler Library of the History of Medicine

One of the world's largest collections of rare medical texts and ephemera.
"The package may be small, but you will know it does not need to hold the love I send, for that cannot be confined," Hildreth Heiney wrote to her fiancé in 1918. The man in the photograph, identified as John, may be her brother.
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A Trove of Sad, Funny, and Familiar Stories From the 1918 Flu Pandemic

A UCLA librarian has built a remarkable collection of century-old letters, diaries, and photographs.
Jessica Klein May 1, 2020
Behold the bonkers, baroque design of the Klementinum Library in Prague.
libraries

7 Spectacular Libraries You Can Explore From Your Living Room

You can almost smell the old books.
Claire Voon April 24, 2020
At Harvard, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury.
libraries

Even More Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home

As long as we're all cooped-up, here are six digital projects that could use your curiosity.
Jessica Leigh Hester April 7, 2020
It's a shame we don't yet have the technology to digitize the Library's famous Nottebohm Room.
libraries

The Ambitious Plan to Digitize 100,000 Historic Texts in Belgium

Two major Antwerp institutions are putting some of their voluminous holdings in the cloud.
Matthew Taub April 7, 2020
The Museum of Portable Sound before its Grand Opening Gala in November 2015. The tiny ribbon in front of the phone was cut with the tiny pair of scissors.
libraries

A Loopy Library of Sounds Features Sprinklers, Sirens, and Freud's Toilet

The Museum of Portable Sound normally resides on an iPhone 4S. Now, you can hear it via video chat.
Claire Voon April 3, 2020
A detail of the dreamy map of Rye Beach, New York.
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Let Your Mind Wander With These Gloriously Detailed Maps

Satisfy your urge to roam and while away some time with these picks from cartographic collectors, curators, and scholars.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 31, 2020
Dunfermline, Scotland

Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries

Andrew Carnegie funded the building of almost 3,000 libraries across the world, this was the first.
Librarians and archivists have digitized a lot of material, and they could use your help reading through it.
libraries

How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room

If you're cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more.
Jessica Leigh Hester March 23, 2020
Cookie or fruit bun? Tell us what you see.
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Found: A Greasy Leftover Snack Inside a Rare Book

Whether a cookie or a fruit bun, the "offending object" has been discarded.
Matthew Taub March 11, 2020
Mary Willis Library.
Washington, Georgia

Mary Willis Library

The first free library in Georgia features an original Tiffany stained glass window of Mary Willis.
Some of the buildings which form the Palace Green Library
Durham, England

Palace Green Library

This library dates back to the late 17th century and was one of the first public lending libraries in England.
Behold: Great Britain's red grouse.
libraries

See 500 Years of Artful Nature Illustrations

Over 57 million pages of wildlife are catalogued.
Isaac Schultz February 17, 2020
It's got a bookish secret.
objects of intrigue

How a Trashed Italian Manuscript Got Sewn Into a Sweet Silk Purse

Book waste can be beautiful.
Jessica Leigh Hester February 14, 2020