Forget journeys into the stacks or stints at a library scanner: For more and more of the New York Public Library's collections, access is just a click away. On Wednesday, the library released more ...

Earlier this month, Open Culture pointed to a big move from the British Library: the library is putting a million images into the public domain. An image by Eliza F. Manning from “The Coming of Father ...

The British Library is one of the greatest libraries in the world, with a collection than spans more than 170 million artifacts—the largest in the world. For the past two decades the British Library ...

From Flore des serres et des jardins de l’Europe A Gand (1845-1880) (all images courtesy the Biodiversity Heritage Library) “We need the tonic of wildness,” writes Henry David Thoreau in his 1854 ...

This module explores the basic concepts of copyright law. It provides a general introduction to the elements of copyright important to librarians. Other modules will discuss these topics in detail. “I ...

Woolworth Building construction. Image via The New York Public Library Of course, the archive also includes a significant assortment of captivating architectural images that range from everyday scenes ...

Numerous books, films and other works first published in 1926 enter the public domain on January 1. Center for the Study of the Public Domain When writer Benjamin Hoff published the Tao of Pooh in ...

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.” For years, those iconic lines of verse in Robert Frost’s “Stopping by the Woods on a ...