Newberry visitors’ thoughts. Christopher Borrelli’s article on the Newberry Library Board’s decision to shut down the library’s annual used book fair after nearly 40 years left me a little ...

The Newberry Library — whose collection of historical artifacts ranges from 600,000 maps to Shakespeare’s First Folio, from Thomas Jefferson’s Federalist papers ...

The Newberry Library was showing its age. Now, after big renovation, it's showing off what's new, including visitor-aimed changes, World's Fair show.

The library, which opened in 1885, is named after wealthy 1800s Chicago civic leader, Walter L. Newberry, an avid reader and book collector, who bequeathed half of his estate to found this home ...

The colors in the 15th Century illustrated religious manuscript light up the page with luminous beauty, but the images are brutal. Anne Rice, peering at a leaf of “Speculum Humanae Salvationis ...

By sharing the cost of expensive manuscripts with universities, Chicago's Newberry Library ensures the tomes are available to researchers. Newberry Library Is Sharing Rare Books - Los Angeles Times ...

He will surely visit the Newberry Library’s newest exhibition, a small but engaging presentation, “Chicago Style: Mike Royko and Windy City Journalism,” which opens Thursday in the Hanson ...

The Newberry Library is collecting signs, flyers, and other documentation of recent civil-rights protests. Photos: Adrienne Hurst On display at the Newberry Library are Post-it notes bearing ...

A special exhibit displays some of the exquisite items in the Newberry's vast collection, on the occasion of the library's 125th anniversary ...

Oklahoma researchers at Newberry Library rediscovering Cherokee Nation stories 02:28. CHICAGO (CBS) — A team of researchers from Oklahoma has been in Chicago all week at the Newberry Library on ...

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The new collection will be housed in the Newberry’s Midwest Dance Collection. The move will make the archive, which highlights Chicago’s significant contributions to the art form, far more ...