Now that the private institution is closed, its archives collection have moved to an offsite location of the Birmingham Public Library.

Scientists have discovered that pages of the Qur'an found hidden away at a Birmingham University library may have been written during the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad.

Birmingham's venerable public library is answering the call and reaching out -- delivering sought-after research to women from California to Tennessee to Florida on topics ranging from immigration ...

HISTORIC books, maps and letters worth £200,000 were stolen from Birmingham University. The documents, which have since been recovered, were taken from a secure collections department at the ...

News Weird News Birmingham City Council Thousands of books at £190million library can't be reached because the shelves are too high Bungling chiefs failed to install equipment to access the high ...

Completed in 2016 in West Midlands, United Kingdom. Images by Tim Cornbill. Associated Architects’ feasibility study concluded that a new building rather than refurbishment of the existing ...

An Islamic manuscript held by the University of Birmingham has been identified as one of the world's oldest fragments of the Koran. Radiocarbon analysis has dated the now "globally significant ...

To celebrate his retirement, Baldwin Public Library's Board of Directors announced the creation of a new named endowment fund honoring Doug Koschik.

The council is cutting nearly a third of statutory library hours as part of what it calls a “transformation” of local ...

On our third day in Birmingham, I visited the Central Library of the Birmingham Public Library system. I wandered aimlessly for a bit and found my way upstairs toward the children’s section.

LONDON-- The University of Birmingham said Wednesday that scientific tests prove a Quran manuscript in its collection is one of the oldest known and may have been written close to the time of the ...

[First look + project data] Associated Architects has unveiled these proposals for a new £51.1 million digital library and cultural gateway for the University of Birmingham The 14,068m² scheme, which ...