Not just for working. Use it for thinking, for reconnecting, writing or creating. The library is a sanctuary where your mind slows down, even though the world o ...

Security teams chose to pro-actively shut down the servers rather than leave systems vulnerable, a decision that chief executive officer Sarah Meilleur credits with saving the library%u2019s ...

Many Chicken Little essays cropped up over the seizure of domains by Homeland Security, questioning the due process involved and decrying the potential for censorship that the new law affords.

Anonymous Patron writes “After being announced as being one of the three worst mayors in the United States by TIME magazine (April, 2005), Mayor Dick Murphy has resigned effective July 15, 2005 says ...

Marylaine wrote in with sad news on her loooooooong running “Neat New Things I Found This Week.” This week was her final week of Neat New Things I Found This Week…. “Something I did there that I think ...

Article opens with some mention of the power and speed with which social media operates. The article then continues: A news item suddenly creates an opportunity, or a celebrity meltdown jeopardizes a ...

Bible pages printed more than five centuries ago are among the highlights of a new exhibit in the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. The display — called the “The Literal Bible” — features eight rare ...

The 23,600 volumes he accumulated between the 1970s and his arrest in March of 1990 were all stashed in his 17-room home — wall to wall, floor to ceiling, in hallways, closets and bathrooms. But the ...

Behind the scenes of the Free Library’s Author Events resignations and rebirthThe walkout and subsequent firing of Author Events staff this year was the result of a decades-long, murky relationship ...

The Urbana (IL) Free Library is facing scrutiny after the director, Deb Lissak made a “made a unilateral decision to weed books in the print collection by date alone,” ignoring established criteria ...

How public libraries are becoming community hubs in the midst of disastersBeyond just green upgrades, libraries across the country have become centers for resilience and recovery in the face of ...

The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. By the time the last Encyclopaedia ...