Famed naturalist Charles Darwin amassed an impressive personal library over the course of his life, much of which was preserved and cataloged upon his death in 1882. But many other items were lost, ...

For the very first time, the entire contents of the eclectic personal library of naturalist Charles Darwin has been published online, and a massive 9,300 entries come with links to the works, making ...

The author of “Goodbye, Columbus” and “The Human Stain” left several thousand books, many of them with notes or letters, to the Newark Public Library. The collection will soon open to the public. By ...

The library appears to be well-maintained with neatly stacked books. Libraries are special in some ways. Perhaps it's the intoxicating smell of rows and rows of books, the promise of discovering new ...

From the money he saved and a loan from his father, John D Rockefeller opened his first business in 1859. Mr Rockefeller joined the oil business in 1870 and focussed on refining the crude oil. At its ...

Text description provided by the architects. Located in the west wing of the “Jose Vasconcelos” Library in Mexico, the personal library of Carlos Monsivais will be a space where the personal ...

The Toronto Public Library (TPL) says personal information — including the names, birthdays, social insurance numbers and home addresses — of employees was stolen in a ransomware attack that has also ...

A sign on an entrance to the Broadview branch of Seattle Public Library after a cybersecurity incident in May. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) In its latest update about the ransomware attack that ...