There is a deep connection between a scholar and their research subject or materials. This association can be a result of childhood influences, individual culture or even serendipitous happenstance.

The National Endowment for the Humanities is awarding the University of Chicago nearly $1 million to transform UChicago’s creation, stewardship, and delivery of digital collections and research data.

The newly renovated Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Library features expanded study space, increased natural lighting, and a revitalized collection meant to spark curiosity and inspire scholarship.

The Boston Public Library has received $2.1 million in private funding to begin restoring its founding research collection, library officials said Wednesday. The library received two donations — one ...

The Kelvin Smith Library will create and curate metadata that is inclusive of people of all racial, ethnic, cultural, socioeconomic, national, and international backgrounds, religion, age, sexual ...

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Even as the building was under construction, Melvin Thompson sometimes sat outside the Carter G. Woodson library branch and stared at the illuminated black and white image of Vivian G. Harsh, ...

Jessica Smith, left, research services librarian, and Anne McDonough, library and collections director, in the Kiplinger Research Library at the Historical Society of Washington. It reopens Tuesday in ...

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