The annual World Library and Information Congress brings together librarians, information professionals, scholars and ...

Actor Yoo Ji-tae has been appointed as the promotional ambassador for the ’2026 World Library and Information Congress‘ (WLIC ...

The World Digital Library, a website offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and photographs from across the globe, launches Tuesday at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Bringing ...

The library is home to over 4,000 texts, including some that are exceedingly rare, such as a 9th-century Qu'aran written in Kufic script on camel skin. The restoration includes a state-of-the art lab ...

The World Digital Library Supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and U.S. Library of Congress www.wdl.org The Gist: Four years ago, U.S. Librarian ...

What do you picture at mention of the word “library”? Mountains? Rivers? Trees? Rice paddies? Correct. At least in the case of shimmering new knowledge repository the Beijing City Library – which is ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...