Among the oldest existing “books,” the cuneiform (wedge-shaped) writing was developed in remote ages from picture signs and was in use by many peoples at the dawn of history. The Semitic Babylonians adopted it from its probable inventors and their own predecessors in the land, the Sumerians, a non-Semitic people

Written by Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Dana Bronson In the Inland Northwest Special Collections, we try to practice what Rachel Vagts, an archivist at the Denver Public Library, coined as “radical welcome.” This challenges staff to design our policies and procedures through the lens of “how can we make