Chinese subway riders using Shanghai’s Metro Line 2 will soon have their very own unofficial library. Pick up a book at one station, drop it…
Category: Libraries
With the cost of purchasing an ILS completely out of reach for a library in a village of 128 people, Beth Kulacz, the Director of…
It is both instructive and revealing that the Tea Party would challenge so energetically such a hallowed institution as the public library. One hundred eighty…
Here’s the last of the summer library series from NPR, once again featuring Jessamyn West. More than 90 percent of Americans say public libraries are…
Redditor mikedudical was worried that his kids weren’t going to like their new school, Bloomington Elementary in St. George, Utah. But then, he check out…
I can’t argue with this list all that much. How about you? There are few things more relaxing than immersing yourself in a good book.…
There’s a battle going down at the of the Baltimore County Public Library system. It’s a one-point game in the fourth quarter with only seconds…
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, libraries in New York helped the storm’s victims turn a new page. Librarians helped thousands of people fill out…
When I was 9, I spent a lot of time at a public library just down the street; I was already a theater nerd, and…
No, Libramnesia is not the name of a woman or the latest mixed drink to grace the pages of Ruby Tuesday’s summer cocktail menu. Libramnesia…