The 78-rpm disc crackles for a moment before the swing music kicks up, gleeful yelps erupt, and the band W. Lee O’Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys begin to sing the virtues of—what else?—mountain music ...

Long before cloud servers and computers, medieval Catholic monks preserved the intellectual inheritance of the ancient world by handwriting Greek and Latin manuscripts. Centuries later, the Vatican ...

The 1660 Klencke Atlas is among the world’s biggest books, measuring nearly six feet by seven and a half feet when open. So when the British Library digitized the towering tome, it required several ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the University of Chicago Library, in partnership with the Newberry Library and the Chicago History Museum, a grant to digitize historical maps of ...

The British Library, which is the United Kingdom’s national library, is teaming with Microsoft to digitize 25 million pages of content next year. The plan is to digitize roughly 100,000 ...

Digitization is a “very laborious and time-consuming process,” as Tim Stutz will be the first to admit. A digital conversion specialist at the Library of Congress, Stutz has spent the past nine years ...

Brevard County Libraries experienced record digital checkouts in 2025. This year’s Library Lookback shows that checkouts grew by 10 percent.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X POTTSVILLE – The Pottsville Free Public Library has joined a statewide initiative to digitize ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – It is one of the most extensive collections of Black history and literature in the country, and for a long time, it could only be seen in Chicago. But the collection is about to become ...

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In this Monday, Nov. 11, 2019 photo, Israeli National Library official holds a text of Rabbi Isaac Abarbanel from the 15th century, published in Amsterdam in 1739, at the library in Jerusalem. The ...

The Cuba Studies Program of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies recently announced an effort to digitize part of its Cuba-related collection through the Harvard Library. The ...