After gaining global acceptance, Chinese online literature has now found its place in the bookshelves of the world’s largest academic library. Sixteen Chinese web novels have been included in the ...

LONDON — Capturing the unruly, ever-changing Internet is like trying to pin down a raging river. But the British Library is going to try. For centuries the library has kept a copy of every book, ...

The British Library's collection of Ethiopian manuscripts is the richest in Europe, where there are in fact numerous public and private collections of such manuscripts. Three inventory catalogs have ...

One of the world’s oldest Qur’an manuscripts is now online, digitized in full by the British Library. The text dates from the 8th century — making it the oldest of its kind in the institution’s ...

Believe it or not, 2017 will mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (“Sorcerer’s Stone” in the US), the first volume in J.K. Rowling’s wildly popular ...