Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large free municipal library in the United States. The present Copley Square location has been home to the Library since 1895, when architect Charles Follen ...

Brattle Book Shop's Ken Gloss Talks Rare Books (Free Antique Book Appraisals) (*RR) Tuesday, December 17, 6pm Ken Gloss, ...

A library isn't always all about books. The main branch of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square, which opened in 1895, is so much more, according to recent visitors who call the architecture ...

On Monday, the 2024 Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards will be presented at an event at the Boston Public Library in Copley Square. The awards ceremony begins at 4 p.m. and is open to the public with ...

A two-volume set containing the writings of William Penn and published in London in 1726 has found a new permanent home in the Reading Public Library. The books titled “A Collection of the Works of ...

A two-volume set containing the writings of William Penn and published in London in 1726 has found a new permanent home in the Reading Public Library. The books titled “A Collection of the Works ...

Visitors touring the Boston Public Library’s central branch in Copley ... which formerly was the book delivery room. For galleries and collections behind closed doors, the “Hidden BPL ...

And it took the patient sleuthing of a rare books and manuscripts curator from the Newberry Library to reunite the lost books — some printed decades before Shakespeare penned his first play ...

In 1610, James I issued a royal proclamation suppressing the book and ordering all copies to be burned ... his signature and address from his first year at Harvard Law School 99 years ago this fall.

books for teens and books for adults. Every year, staffers at the New York Public Library release their rankings of best books of the year spanning a variety of categories, including top tomes for ...