The Boston Globe, who regular carries stories about rare books, has a feature about a University of Massachusetts student who was assigned to create an exhibition using materials from Boston Public Library’s rare book room. Her chosen subject was Florence Nightingale – Britain’s most famous nurse.

In an age where information can be accessed through a few clicks of a mouse, more and more people, especially the young, are eschewing traditional institutions such as public libraries for their research. But this convenience comes at the expense of a sense of history — a sense that staffers of the Boston Public Library and UMass-Boston hope to restore.