Tag: Library
Iconic Brooklyn Library Unveils Most Borrowed Book in 125 Years
The Brooklyn Public Library in New York, made up of several buildings, has purchased more than 2.86 million books since its opening. Books that follow one another ad infinitum on…
A Ukrainian library “to keep the link with the culture and the mother tongue”
On the shelves, primers, children’s books and novels. All have one thing in common: they are in the Ukrainian language and symbolize the struggle of the hundreds of displaced people…
Bestselling author reads in the Ismaninger library – Munich district
Four grown sisters who couldn’t be more different follow their capricious mother’s enigmatic invitation to a family reunion at their childhood holiday resort on the Dutch coast. Each with their…
Medical history collection for the Bavarian State Library
The Bavarian State Library is receiving what it says is a “top-class collection” of medical-historical works. The house announced on Thursday in Munich. The more than 3000 volumes were a…
State Library acquires photos by Nikolai Molodovsky – Bavaria
The Bavarian State Library has acquired the archive of the photographer Nikolai Molodovsky (1899-1986) with around 69,000 photographs. Molodovsky documented everyday rural life in post-war Bavaria with his camera, the…
Judith Schalansky and the “Future Library” – Culture
Ms. Schalansky, you were selected as the ninth out of a total of 100 authors by the Norwegian “Future Library”. How do you explain the project to someone who has…
California: Library shows finds from returned books
Oakland Library exhibits the craziest finds from returned books The documents left between the pages of the book ranged from the mysterious to the mundane, explains curator Sharon McKellar of…
Exhibition of the Bamberg State Library on ETA Hoffmann – Munich
Ghosts are extremely rare in ETA Hoffmann’s stories and novels. Nevertheless, the author of the “Fantasy Pieces in Callot’s Manner”, the “Elixirs of the Devil” and the “Night Pieces”, whose…
Library shows finds from returned books – these are the craziest
Oakland Library exhibits the craziest finds from returned books The documents left between the pages of the book ranged from the mysterious to the mundane, explains curator Sharon McKellar of…
“Tracks East” in the Arte media library: The light comes from the east – media
Why are all Russian men dressed like petty criminals and all women like prostitutes? Of course they aren’t, but honestly, who hesitated for a moment? Tracks East is the name…