Greg Prickman is cagey about the security details around the massive new glass vault on display at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. And he has every right to be—because it contains ...

It's not part of the regular tour. The undisclosed location inside the Buffalo & Erie County Central Library is where the treasures are kept. It's called the "vault" but it's not dark and scary, in ...

Callousness, capriciousness and merciless time have caused pieces of the Africatown story to be lost. Diligence, devotion and unexpected luck have saved others. Interested onlookers got a rare sense ...

From speeches written and bound on manuscripts the size of a penny to law books printed around 1490, there’s no shortage of interesting finds available at the Library of Michigan. Many of these ...

A bloody nightshirt belonging to a man whose wife attempted to murder him. Memorabilia from bygone Everett High School days. Early library circulation records that reveal the answer to this question: ...

Since its opening in 1828, the Library of Michigan is home to many selections of public interest in the surroundings of the Lansing area. However, there may be some interesting collections that the ...

In a cold, dark vault in the basement of the State Library in Brisbane, rack upon rack of ageing film reels sit dormant. The room is kept at a chilly four degrees Celsius and 35 per cent humidity to ...