From the mid-1970s through the 1990s, M. Joan Lintault was known as the "weaving and fibers/textiles" person in the southern Illinois art community. Lintault came to Carbondale in the 1970s to head up the Fibers/Textile Department at the School of Art and Design at SIUC and continued her tenure there as well as her involvement in the local art community until she retired in 2001.

A book written by a professor from the School of Physics and Astronomy has been chosen to be part of a national campaign to help people understand the world they live in.

Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact sixty-five million years ago, which killed half of all species then living.

Penn State's University Libraries have recently acquired the Charles L. Blockson Collection of African-Americana and the African Diaspora, an important assemblage of some 10,000 volumes relating to African-American, African, Latin American and Caribbean history and culture. The collection is housed in the new Charles L. Blockson Room, on the third floor of Pattee Library, west, and will be opened at 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 18.

Washington, DC - The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is one of five transatlantic collaborations awarded the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grants, announced at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Tuesday.

Loveable family entertainment they may be, but when it comes to environmental awareness, Disney films have rarely been seen as contributing much more than a clutch of cuddly talking animals to the cause.

I haven’t been this excited for a Beatle-related book to come out in a really long time. It's by May Pang, the former girlfriend of John Lenon. I was meeting with a friend last night, and we have a plan for this book. We are going to get it together (I know it sounds a little dorky), and then have a viewing party. We are going to play our Walls and Bridges bootlegs, and then follow them up with our Rock’n Roll session outtakes.

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is joining a pilot program connected with the comic book The Search, which is intended to familiarize young people with the story of the Holocaust. The comic book is published by the Ann Frank Foundation in Amsterdam.

Swedish writer Åke Edwardson has been nominated for one of the United States most prestigious book prizes.

Fans of the ancient Egyptians will be interested to know that University of Manchester Egyptologists have published two new books.

The University of Glasgow will play a major role in the city’s annual Aye Write! book festival.

The Museum of Jewish Heritage—A Living Memorial to the Holocaust is pleased to announce the publication of Dominican Haven: The Jewish Refugee Settlement in Sosua 19401945 by Professor Marion Kaplan of New York University.