When he was a student at the University, Stephen Clark said he spent endless hours at libraries on campus. Little did he know that one day a library would be built in his name. On Friday afternoon, ...

The Library of Congress is going to the map next week. Geographic Information Systems Day, or GIS Day, returns Nov. 14. The Library of Congress will celebrate the annual library symposium on ...

“Globes have a very low survival rate,” explained Ian Fowler, director of the Osher Map Library (OML) at the University of Southern Maine. Made to be touched and spun, globes wear down over the years, ...

The Princeton University Library has completed a multiyear project of digitizing a collection of 19th- and 20th-century maps that illustrate the history and development of communities around New ...

Old maps are fascinating in part because they can tell us not only how people once saw the world but also how that world was shaped. That’s certainly true of the railway maps shown below, whether it’s ...