If you have ever felt overwhelmed by the ubiquity of McDonald’s, this stat may make your day: There are more public libraries (about 17,000) in…
Category: Libraries
From my hometown library: The Local Music Project of the Central Library The library has loaned music for decades, CDs most recently, and cassettes and…
You walk through the front doors of a building that resembles more a contemporary art museum than a repository of books. Instead of a librarian at a…
A recent Pew Internet study on parents, reading and libraries supports Oliver’s sentiment, showing the library’s traditional purpose – providing free reading material – is…
Here’s a fun library project seeking funding via Indogogo:
…you might spare a moment to delve into some of the library-related statistics you can compute within Wolfram|Alpha. We’ve pulled in key statistics from two…
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CNN explains how presidential libraries came to be and why you should watch what you say if you meet the president.
Oral history interview with Attilio F. Caporiccio by Caporiccio, Attilio F., 1916-2007 Why is this significant? This is an example of library as publisher, taking…
Three cheers for Miskatonic University! That’s the rallying cry of the La Vista Public Library (NE)’s teen advisory board—who, under the exuberant guidance of youth…