A visitor looks at themed products of "Lord of the Mysteries" during the inclusion event of ten online Chinese novels at the British Library in London, Britain, on Nov. 21, 2024. The British Library ...

Workers on strike, who range from security guards, to receptionists and library assistants, are demanding a pay rise ...

For more than 100 years, the British Library kept thousands of its dirtiest books locked away from the rest of its collections. All volumes deemed to be in need of extra safeguarding so that members ...

In London today, the British Library and Google announced an agreement to make 250,000 books – 14 million pages -- available for free online. Published between 1700 and 1870, the titles include a ...

To stay at the forefront of global literary trends and incorporate more works from diverse languages, cultures, and eras, the storied British Museum has just announced a new partnership with China's ...

Google plans to add an additional 250,000 titles to its Google Books online service by digitizing up to 40 million pages of content from the London-based British Library collection. Google's ...

The British Library has expanded its Chinese collection by adding 10 online novels by Chinese authors, including Lord of the Mysteries, Soul Land, and The Joy of Life, a testament to the cultural ...

I really like the image above. To me, it looks like a man enjoying some kind of steam-punk device designed for using your iPad in bed. According to the British Library, however, it's a monograph from ...

The Irish writer was barred in 1895 after being convicted of gross indecency. On Thursday, the British Library will hand over a symbolic new card to his grandson.

The scanning race has started: Microsoft Corp. announced an agreement today to scan 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection that will eventually be made available on its MSN Book Search ...

Google has made a deal with the British Library to make an extensive collection available online: The partnership covers non-copyrighted texts only, but will still make thousands of books available ...

An ambitious new project by the British Library will place a huge number of 19th-century books–including original illustrations, page layouts, and design–on Apple’s tablet for leisure reading. The ...