In December 1980, as the Friends planned its book sale, there was a call for "volunteer workers with a spirit of adventure ...

A long-overdue copy of Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has finally been returned to the Greenwich Library—56 years late ...

1—The Community Library Network is sifting through 140 books that could be among the ... My goals, always, have been to bring broader perspective to their relatively narrow view.

Since the late 18th century, small colonies of bats have guarded the books in the Joanina Library at the University of Coimbra in central Portugal. The library contains 60,000 books that are all ...

The Community Library Network is sifting through 140 books that could be among the ... My goals, always, have been to bring broader perspective to their relatively narrow view.

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the curation of a book collection. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I have a Little Free Library in my front ... a few thousand years old, and that dinosaurs and ...

Boulder author Leslie Vedder (“The Bone Spindle”) is excited to launch “The Labyrinth of Souls” in the town where her love of ...

“Butch to his Nelly.” But she, too, is a labyrinth-maker: The same events are repeatedly visited, newly freighted with more information or a different perspective, as if she were stumbling ...

For author Percival Everett, libraries have long been a source of knowledge and discovery and pleasure, even of the forbidden kind.

An endoscopic camera was used ... on old books. Together with student assistant Iris van Kuijk, Porck made video recordings of the inside of several books in the Leiden University Library and ...

Kaboom! In the dark recesses of an old retread tire factory, a meeting of two extraordinary minds has formed a super team at the Clyde Library, pushing literacy with a comic book reading club.

This column, submitted by the Library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these titles at the library by visiting spl.org and searching ...