The library is part of the complex that includes Qarawiyyin Mosque and Qarawiyyin University. Over the last four years, the library has undergone a multimillion dollar restoration.

So goes an old Moroccan proverb. For centuries, wise men have flocked to the city of Fez seeking knowledge from the books held within its ancient library at al-Qarawiyyin. Scholars and students at the ...

Oslo, Norway — Every May, literature lovers from all over the world walk 40 minutes through the hilly Nordmarka Forest outside of Norway’s capital Oslo and stop at a place where 1,000 Norwegian spruce ...

One great way to get a real sense of a country’s cultural identity is by visiting its libraries. Libraries are so much more than places to store books. They’re at the heart of a nation’s culture, ...

A courtyard in front of a mosque adjacent to the al-Qarawiyyin Library, pre-restoration. Khonsali via Wikimedia Commons When the library at Morocco’s al-Qarawiyyin University was first built in the ...

The Library of Congress, the world's largest library, holds over 173 million items, including books, manuscripts, and maps. Founded in 1800, it continues to expand, fueled by copyright laws and ...

For the last couple years, Jill Harness has been rounding up the world's most beautiful libraries by continent. Here they are all in one place, in no particular order. Aside from being absolutely ...

Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, ...

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Over the past two years, Johnson’s gift and his ongoing support have helped launch a whole new direction of growth for the library’s wine collection: building the world’s leading collection on wine ...

ACQUISITION ADDS OVER 150 FEATURE FILMS AND REMAKE RIGHTS; AS WELL AS OVER 500 HOURS OF AUDIO PROGRAMMING TO HELP POWER CINEDIGM'S GROWING STREAMING BUSINESS Previous customers and clients of Films ...

World War II history buffs can learn new details at a talk called "The War Within a War," about the intense rivalries between ...