The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum (in Columbia Point, MA) is interested in hiring an intern to provide reference assistance in the Library’s reading room. The intern will assist professional reference staff in responding to research requests and …

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center) and Syracuse University announce The King Center Audio and Visual Digitization Project, a collaboration that will ensure that the slain civil rights leader’s legacy will be preserved

We are excited to announce that SCoSAA is launching an SAA-sponsored I Found It In The Archives! contest. This contest is an opportunity for all students at Simmons College to collectively discuss the rare and valuable treasures that we have …

Historians and archivists at Mississippi State are announcing the discovery of what they believe to be a historic treasure: a hair lock from the 19th century’s best known African American social reformer.

The artifact was found among items in the

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If a Valentine’s Day fight or a demanding boss has left you flooded with absurd requests, consider writing them down on a Post-it. Maybe one day, a filmmaker will gather these absurdities

A consortium of librarians and scholars from across the country, including faculty members from Harvard University, met yesterday in Washington to work on creating the proposed Digital Public Library of America, an online storehouse stocked with millions of digitized books,

Auctioneer Grant Gardner was rummaging through a nice, middle-class home in London in May when he stumbled upon a book.

“It was in a second-floor clothes closet, up on a shelf behind clothes in a pile of books,” he recalled.