The Servants of Knowledge collection on the Internet Archive is an effort to make up for the lack of library resources in India. On a bright sunny day in August, in a second-floor room at the Gandhi ...

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 ...

In Washington, the Library of Congress holds 173 million documents on over 500 miles of shelving. Founded in 1800, this US federal institution houses the largest collection of books in the world, ...

Preus Library contains physical collections of over 320,000 volumes. The collection also includes Periodicals and a variety of more specialized resources. Most of the Preus Library materials circulate ...