The renaming of "Mount Denali" and "Gulf of Mexico" to the politically loaded “Mount McKinley" and "Gulf of America" reveal the naked truth of what cataloging has always been: a battlefield where mean...

Painstaking work has commenced to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

I am delighted to be hosting this guest post on Approaching Palaeography from my colleague Daniel Sawyer, the Fitzjames Research Fellow in Medieval English Literature at Merton College, Oxford. Dan…

A decade before “Slaughterhouse-Five,” Vonnegut pitched what he believed would be “the third popular checkerboard game” – behind checkers and chess.

North Central Michigan College's Decolonization Project reorganizes its Indigenous collection, honoring Indigenous voices and perspectives.

In 2013, Maynooth University not only acquired Pearse Hutchinson’s archival collections but also his extensive library. This collection reflects his interests and complements his archives. Staff in…

Keepers of the National Library of Ireland’s special collections have assembled a fascinating gastronomic collection through their shared love of food

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U-M Libraries Territorial Acknowledgment Working Group hosted an event centered on the Maawn Doobiigeng System.