Fold-up geometrical illustrations in the first English edition of Euclid’s ‘Elements of Geometry,’ published London, 1570. John Dee wrote a mathematical preface to the book. (© Royal College of ...

The Library of Lost Books project is trying to collect items looted from the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin, known as the Hochschule. It was also home to one of the world’s largest and ...

The Nazis seized tens of thousands of books from the Jewish Theological Seminary in Budapest, but the works are making their way back, including one being returned in New York this week. By Catherine ...

There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken that to an extreme. Staff at a public library in Helsinki were rather surprised when a copy of Arthur ...

A woman walks into her local library and hands the librarian a book. He takes it gingerly, seeing that the book is old. He wonders if the woman who is returning it has been careless with the volume.

ADRIAN, Mich. -- A couple in Michigan faced criminal charges after their son checked out a Dr. Seuss book back in 2014, but lost it. Then, the next year, the couple checked out a second book and lost ...

On her first day volunteering at a public library in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Helen Poniatowski was flipping through a donated book when something unusual caught her eye: a timeworn wedding photo ...

RAVE to the Alaska Airlines crew member, staff or customer who found my library book left on a recent flight to Newark and returned it to the King County Library, and rave to the astute librarian who ...