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This library has had silent “employees” protecting its books for 300 years until you realize they’ve never been paid and never stop working

A 300-year-old library in Portugal has been using silent employees to protect its books for centuries. What are these hidden ...
Seven Days

New Book on Historic Craftsbury Benefits the Public Library

After studying a two-volume description of historic Craftsbury architecture, Tom Twetten was left wanting more. Craftsbury Historic Sites & Structures Survey of 1983, conducted to qualify sites for ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

A key to the past through books at a magical address in Boston

HILL. EVER WALK PAST A BUILDING AND WONDER WHAT’S INSIDE? WELL, THE DOOR IS OPEN AT THIS HARRY POTTER ESQUE ADDRESS. TEN AND A HALF BEACON STREET, BOSTON HERE. SILENCE REALLY DOES SPEAK VOLUMES. SHH.

A library book checked out before the 1906 earthquake was just returned, more than a century later

A soot-stained poetry book believed lost in San Francisco’s 1906 disaster has found its way home after an unlikely journey ...
New York Post

‘Beautiful’ LI library with secret history – and infamous arson case – finally lands on historical registry after years-long push

Now it’s in the books. A Long Island library with a fascinating past, marked by women’s suffrage milestones and an infamous arson incident, is now officially listed on the National Register of ...
WYFF

Spartanburg County Public Library digitizing historic property records to aid preservation, access

AHEAD. BUT FIRST AT 530. HUNDREDS OF YEARS WORTH OF PUBLIC RECORDS ARE NOW BEING PRESERVED AND DIGITIZED BY THE SPARTANBURG COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY. AND TODAY WE TOOK A LOOK AT THE EFFORTS OF ...