Any day now, trucks will begin arriving weekdays at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin to begin hauling away thousands of books. The books will be ferried to undisclosed locations to be scanned ...

The theme “Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge” set the stage for the 80th International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information ...

Copenhagen’s Human Library lends people who volunteer to be “open books” in one-on-one conversations with “readers.” These books share a wide range of personal perspectives — from being a trans woman ...

For 75 years the small rural community of Jersey Shore has had a library. A place where its residents could go to borrow books, read magazines and newspapers, and in recent years, find movies and ...

This year’s fair, held in September, also offered the chance to celebrate Countway’s 60th anniversary, including cookies ...

A courtyard in front of a mosque adjacent to the al-Qarawiyyin Library, pre-restoration. Khonsali via Wikimedia Commons When the library at Morocco’s al-Qarawiyyin University was first built in the ...

The Lawrence Public Library’s bookmobile outreach program will get a lift with a sponsorship pledge from a KU sorority. The ...

The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

This innovative digital project combines the resources of public and private libraries around the world on the subject of the ...

Over the past two years, Johnson’s gift and his ongoing support have helped launch a whole new direction of growth for the library’s wine collection: building the world’s leading collection on wine ...