MOT 1940: VATICAN CITY: APOSTOLIC LIBRARY: ARCHIVAL RESTORATION: Archivist sitting at desk w/ pages hanging above, Archivists looking at worm-eaten bound manuscript to be restored.

Brewster Kahle is building a truly huge digital library -- every book ever published, every movie ever released, all the strata of web history ... It's all free to the public -- unless someone else gets to it first.

The British Library’s archives and collections represent an amazing resource for innovative and interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Meet some of our curators and get a flavour of the unique and diverse material that is...

This video gives an overview of some of the key papers in the Nature archive. From the development of nuclear fission to the cloning and birth of Dolly the sheep, Nature has continually published some of the most influential work in...

The Great Library of Alexandria, renowned for its ancient knowledge, has been revived in the form of the new Library of Alexandria. This modern library combines the ancient with the modern, offering users access to electronic copies of...

The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine was hit by hackers recently with DDoS attacks, a data breach, and vandalism on its website. Over 31 million accounts were compromised and the Wayback Machine has been temporarily taken offline....

The National Archives and Records Administration is an independent federal agency dedicated to the preservation of historic government records. With storage facilities across the United States, NARA's contents give us an insight into our...

Discover the vast collections of the Library of Congress, from rare manuscripts to historical maps and music.

Discover the vast collections of the Library of Congress, from rare manuscripts to historical maps and music.

Home to millions of books and manuscripts, the Library of Congress is a hub of culture and knowledge, pioneering digital accessibility while safeguarding America's rich history.

MOT 1935: LEAGUE OF NATIONS UNION MEMBERS: MS People in library. PAN CU Books in shelf. INT MS Lord Cecil at head of committee meeting around long table. MS Parliament member Megan Lloyd George (1902-1966) sitting in meeting. MS Members...

MOT 1937: MARITIME COMMISSION: VS Businessman Joseph Kennedy & team of four men going over books, researching in library, 'Joe' Kennedy sitting at desk. (Commission replaces US Shipping board) The Great Depression.

Will Self’s archive includes drafts of novels, his cartoons, a full hard-drive, family documents and letters received from other writers. At this event he meets fellow author Hanif Kureishi, also archived at the Library. They explore the...

The British Library is working in partnership with the Qatar Foundation and the Qatar National Library to digitise half a million pages of archival and manuscript material relating to the Gulf, creating an online portal that will be...

Oluwaseun Obasola is a librarian from Nigeria who spent 2016/17 as a Chevening Fellow at the British Library. In this video she provides an introduction to the process of digital archiving that will be useful for librarians and archivist...

Richard Ovenden has been Bodley’s Librarian (the senior Executive position of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford) since 2014. Prior to that Richard held positions at Durham University Library, the House of Lords Library,...

Join us for a conversation on the power and potential of archiving stories of sexism, sisterhood and struggle. Jill Liddington, Abi Morgan, Heidi Safia Mirza, Deborah Withers and Margaretta Jolly debate the questions of politics,...

Archive excerpt from 1927 shows New York school children visiting the American Museum of Natural History, and includes street scenes of the city. The film also shows the circulating nature study collection, which brought Museum material...

Join Conservator Eloïse Lovejoy for a little ASMR at the Museum. Put your headphones on and listen as Eloïse gently cares for a copy of Treatise on Zoology, published in Paris in 1884, which is held in the Library and Archives...

Since the seventeenth century, members of the Religious Society of Friends - also known as Quakers - have often suffered for their beliefs and activities. In the early days, many were sent to prison. In later times they were prominent in...

Archival Museum footage shows the discovery of the "perfect dozen" nest of dinosaur eggs found during Roy Chapman Andrews's expeditions to the Gobi Desert in the 1920s. Excerpts from the Central Asiatic Expeditions, filmed during the...

Archival Museum film includes some of the earliest color footage of a total solar eclipse, filmed during a 1937 expedition to Peru. Excerpts from the Hayden Planetarium-Grace Peruvian Eclipse Expedition of 1937. George Clyde Fisher,...

Dr. Merav Mack is an authority on the libraries and archives of Jerusalem. Produced in association with "Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from September 26, 2016, through January...

National Archives: This video explores primary sources that tell us more about life as a Victorian child criminal in Britain. It also gives insight as to many of the characters found in Charles Dickens novels, especially including Oliver...