It was a hot and dismal day in Charlottesville, Virginia, in June 1815 as Thomas Jefferson watched the last of ten wagons carry away his entire personal library. His beloved 1744 edition of Cicero was ...

Suchi Rudra is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, BBC and Vice, among other publications. While the classic school library has always welcomed students to relax with a book, do a ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...

Five yearning Tokyo readers get life advice with their borrowed volumes in Michiko Aoyama’s “What You Are Looking For Is in the Library.” By Robin Sloan When you purchase an independently reviewed ...

At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the ...

Library Executive Director Tamie Martin wants residents to understand that a vote against the millage is a vote for no ...