She hated me, she hated Julie Andrews,” was Dick Van Dyke’s blunt assessment of PL Travers in the wake of Walt Disney’s triumphant 1964 adaptation of the author’s 1934 novel Mary Poppins. For all its ...

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The American Library Association (ALA) welcomed the release of a major national study conducted by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) about the condition of public library buildings.

At September’s arts event called Ink The Block Party, Felix Richter-Addo was behind a table laden with books. All around him were artists selling their prints, jewelry, paintings and trinkets.

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Data collected under the Death in Custody Reporting Act has some serious problems. Here’s how we fixed some of them.

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Age, neglect and vandalism had spoiled the original Jurassic park, imagined into existence by a gang of visionary Victorians ...

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