History of the Book Archives

The Spy Who Came In from the Carrel

In Nazi Europe, countless books were banned. So those who saved books—whether university archivists or Jewish scholars—became smugglers.

The mass of objects lead quiet lives awaiting activation. On shelves or in boxes, as papers or digital files, storage furnishes an ever-present ...

In a side room of the Boston College site of the three-part exhibition Beyond Words: Illuminated Manuscripts in Boston Collections ...

Last summer I decided to assign Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects in the graduate course I was getting ready to teach. The title ...