The scrolls will become part of the popular Sakamaki/Hawley Collection located in Hamilton Library’s Asia Collection. The collection has more than 5,000 items, mostly consisting of Ryukyu source ...

The digital revolutionhas long been in the works, and now, count The Library of Congress as one of the standard-bearers of making old, new. The Library’s comprehensive digitization project, makes ...

Unable to afford textbooks while growing up on Japan’s northwest coast, Yoko Breckenridge would borrow them from friends and copy each chapter by hand. Breckenridge, who married an American soldier ...

AKASHI, Hyogo -- Just 17 months after opening, a municipal library in this west Japan city has become a popular gathering place for residents by challenging the long-standing expectation of silence at ...

The sound of small voices yelling “konichiwa” – Japanese for hello – drifted out of the small children’s room in the University Park Library. Inside the room, colorful patchwork quilts hung on the ...