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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

(a commentary on the psychic business that was covered earlier), by columnist Michael Fitzgerald: A library is the ultimate university. Its teachers are books. It must offer as many courses as ...

Like many before him, the former head of state is writing a book…but rather than delivering a more traditional presidential memoir, he plans to explain twelve difficult personal and political ...

SomeOne spotted This Canada.com Story that says Ottawa Public Library board members are being asked to rethink their Internet pornography decision, and this time, get it right. Ottawa city councillors ...

Seven-in-ten American adults (72%) have read a book within the past year, whether in whole or in part and in any format, according to a survey conducted in March and April. That figure has fallen from ...

Via the New Yorker’s BookBench…a new Web site lets would-be readers explain their decision to buy or not buy certain e-books: Lost Book Sales.

Brian G. writes “The funding levels for 2006 spending on libraries was announced on June 9, 2005. The American Library Association has issued a press release that summarizes the suggested spending ...