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Harvard University removes human skin binding from book after more than 90 years
Prestigious Harvard University has removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries.


Harvard library removes human skin from book binding
Prestigious Harvard University said Wednesday it had removed human skin from the binding of a book held for over 90 years at one of its libraries.


Harvard Library Removes Book Bound in Human Skin After Nearly A Century. What Is The Reason?
Harvard Library removes a book bound in human skin, Des Destinées de L'âme, due to ethical concerns. The controversial volume, part of the collection since the 1930s, was digitized and will no longer ...


State Library Receives $34M in Federal Funding for Statewide Capital Improvements
The New Jersey State Library has launched a Community Center Digital Connect program, a community resilience project that will address ...


Harvard Has Decided To Remove A Book Cover Made Of Human Skin From Its Library
The library at Harvard University is home to more than 20 million books, but its collection has taken a tiny hit now that it's no longer home to a ...


What Libraries Risk When They Go Digital
Digitization has widened library access, but the cyberattack on the British Library shows that it comes with risks.


This massive Swedish underground library documents paranormal phenomena
In Sweden, the Archives for the Unexplained claims to be the world’s biggest library of paranormal phenomena, with 4.2km of shelves ...


Starting a Library in 2024: Challenges, Trends, and Opportunities
In 2019, there were a little over 392 visits to the library for every 100 people in the United States. The number of people visiting libraries peaked in 2009, with around 535.5 visits. Since then, the ...


Graduate student library workers fight for those who will come after them in Illinois
Champaign, graduate students work in the library system teaching research skills to undergraduates, maintaining archives and staffing information desks. #Illinois #labor #UrbanaChampaign ...


A pioneer in Library and Information Science education of Sri Lanka
Prof Jayasiri Lankage born 10th September 1936 at Kekanadura, Matara, studied the GCE (AL) from Ambalangoda Dharmasoka Vidyalaya in 1957 and entered Vidyodaya University (Presently Sri Jayewardenepura ...


University of Exeter: Historian Unveils Startling New Book Chronicling the Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
A powerful new history book that seeks to demystify the notorious Ku Klux Klan has been published by an expert in modern American society at the University of Exeter.The Full History of the Ku Klux Kl ...


Harvard University removes human skin binding from book
Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library. Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the ...