In a series of three donations ($100,00 in 2008, $500,000 in 2010, and $500,000 this year), an anonymous donor has pledged money to the Boston Public Library to catalog, conserve,… Read more »

As we wrote here on January 29th, there has been much concern in recent days about the status of many thousands of priceless manuscripts in the Malian city of Timbuktu.… Read more »