Editor’s note: This article was originally published on February 20. It is re-posted now to supplement the Living Word exhibition of Biblical manuscripts and artifacts taking place at the Regent University Library from March 20th to March 23rd. View of the Dead Sea from a cave at Qumran The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection [...]

Regent University Library: "[one] of the kindest places on campus" A recent article in Inside Higher Ed urges faculty, staff, and students of colleges and universities to be mindful of the contribution their libraries make to their institutions. Maria Shine Stewart, an adjunct professor of writing who spends a lot of time in libraries, enumerates [...]

Suzzallo Library at the University of Washington Written by Harold Henkel, Associate Librarian Second only to churches, libraries have perhaps inspired architects and builders to their greatest creative powers. Librarian of Congress James Billington has written that a book “should inspire a certain presumption of reverence,” and throughout history, great universities and cities have spared [...]

Codex Sinaiticus: Song of Songs 1:1-4. The Codex Sinaiticus is the oldest known surviving manuscript of the Bible. Copied by four scribes sometime between 325 and 360, the entire Bible is in Greek, the text of the Old Testament being the Septuagint. The manuscript takes its name from the Monastery of St. Catherine in the [...]

Title page of returned book If you think your books are overdue, take a look at these links about a book recently returned to Leyburn Library at Washington and Lee University 145 years after it was stolen during the Civil War: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ ALeqM5j0ToG814xNpc_CfqAfmHEzKEdpAAD97ISL6G0        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPlE_yPj2zc The Leyburn Library kindly waived the $52,000 fine. Remember, it’s [...]