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The 16 Best New Cookbooks of 2025 – Bon Appétit
Cooking Our Favorite New Cookbooks of 2025 According to editors, cookbook authors, and chefs. By The Bon Appétit and Epicurious Staffs and Contributors December 2, 2025 All products featured on Bon Appétit are independently selected by our editors. However, we may receive compensation from retailers and/or from purchases of products through these links. This year…
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UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections – EurekAlert!
News Release 5-Dec-2025 UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known…
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“With New Grant, “On The Books” Uses AI To Make Historical Records More Accessible” – UNC University Libraries
From UNC University Libraries: The University Libraries’ On the Books initiative is expanding its scope and exploring how artificial intelligence can make it easier to find and use materials from the archives. A $765,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will support three case studies using AI to improve access to materials related to groups historically underrepresented in
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How to organize your books — even when you have thousands of them – The Washington Post
Serious book lovers share their strategies for displaying their collections and keeping all those titles from taking over By Rosa Cartagena, March 3, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST Here’s a riddle for you: When a book editor and political science professor downsize from a six-bedroom house in the suburbs to a 900-square-foot Manhattan apartment, how…
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Announcing the Library of Congress Festival of Film & Sound | Now See Hear! | Library of Congress
08 March, 2023, Posted by: Stacie Seifrit-Griffin The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center announced today the inaugural Library of Congress Festival of Film and Sound, a new four-day film event celebrating the Library’s rich moving image and recorded sound collections. The festival will be held in association with AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural…
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Library of Congress Builds New Collections Documenting COVID-19 Pandemic | Library of Congress
Collections Include Photographs of Community Impact, Web Archiving of Public Health Data and Artist Responses to the Health Crisis Press Contact: Brett Zongker, (202) 707-1639, bzongker@loc.gov As the world marks the one-year anniversary of the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Library of Congress has been collecting materials and documenting this time in history through a variety…
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The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries
We asked some of our favorite libraries: What’s the oldest item in your collection? Source: The Oldest Treasures From 12 Great Libraries
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Smithsonian Institution | institution, Washington, District of Columbia, United States | Britannica.com
” Smithsonian Institution, research institution founded by the bequest of James Smithson, an English scientist. Smithson, who died in 1829, had stipulated in his will that should his nephew and heir himself die without issue, his remaining assets would pass to the United States and be used…
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New York Public Library launches imprint to publish books inspired by its collections | Books | The Guardian
Excellent effort, no reason libraries cannot be publishers.. even local smaller libraries can do it, self-publish, etc. Seeing the Lions at NYPL (Patience and Fortitude –not sure which is in the photo below) never fails to uplift my heart and soul, and if you’d like to know more about them, check out here: The Library…
