There are grand libraries, and then there is the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Inside a Benedictine monastery in eastern Switzerland, this Baroque masterpiece holds around 160,000 volumes, including ...

Devoted “Downton Abbey” fans who can recite the Dowager Countess of Grantham’s quips by heart can test their knowledge at Lois Wagner Memorial Library in Richmond on May 18. The Lois Wagner Memorial ...

The Abbey Library of St Gallen is a Baroque hall of globes, manuscripts and curiosities that has survived, improbably, for 1,300 years. The church bells were silent and much of the city was still ...

FILE - In this Dec. 6, 2016 photo Sister Apollonia, right, and Postulant Claudia Schwarz kneel in front of the altar of the chapel of the abbey in Altomuenster, Germany. More than 1,000 books that ...

ALTOMUENSTER, Germany — It was filthy, cramped and in major disarray, but when art historian Eva Lindqvist Sandgren entered the library in Altomuenster Abbey, off-limits to all but the German ...

Renovations were recently completed on Belmont Abbey College’s nearly 60-year-old library, allowing the building to better handle the demands of the digital age. Friday, Belmont Abbey College leaders ...

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