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 ...

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month, and the Northwest Regional Library System invites everyone to discover library magic ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...