Someone who enjoys sharing knowledge with others may like the idea of working in a library, since that is a place where visitors often seek answers to questions. In those scenarios, librarians become ...

Wait. Librarians don’t actually retire, do they? They’re only archived and then called up when some arcane piece of memorabilia, maybe a mislaid book or a useful passage only they might remember, ...

Our online column Letters of the Law explores a wide range of legal issues that arise in libraries, with the help of a pair of leading authorities: Mary Minow, a librarian who became a lawyer, and ...

Twenty years since Bill Clinton opened his presidential library and museum before a rain-soaked crowd, the area around the glass and steel facility has been transformed.The museum fueled development ...

The front circulation desk at the Bartholomew County Public Library is shown. The Bartholomew County Public Library is preparing to undergo its first major system upgrade in 16 years in what library ...

What's new at Jacksonville Public Library: "Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi: One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from ... or why.

Throughout the country, far-right groups are trying to control what books kids can read. In Dayton, Wash., they tried to shut down the library altogether. Illustration by Ross MacDonald. EDITOR’S NOTE ...

Few academic libraries were spared from spending cuts in the wake of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new survey results from Ithaka S+R, a higher education-focused research and ...