Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress purchased a huge collection of books belonging to former President Thomas Jefferson, it remains one of America’s greatest literary treasures and has become ...

The Library of Congress has managed to re-create —with the help of rare-book collectors —-the missing two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's Library. Mark Dimunation, of the Library of Congress, discusses ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I was sitting at a table in the reading room of the rare book division of ...

The Jefferson Parish Library will host a free digital expo from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, at the North Kenner Library, 630 W. Esplanade Ave. The digital expo is designed to ...

This post is the first in a six-part series commemorating libraries and librarians 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. Librarian Marylyn Haddican wrote the American Library Association (ALA) a letter in ...

METAIRIE, LA – All people who live in Jefferson Parish now have access to Jefferson Parish Library’s online resources, even if they do not possess a library card. Some of the resources do not require ...

A literary detective story that began 18 months ago and was advanced through a chance reading of an 1880 edition of The Harvard Register has led researchers from the Jefferson Library at Monticello to ...