School libraries come in many forms. They may be book sanctuaries, hangout spots for learners during noninstructional time, technologically advanced media centers full of activity tubs and work tables ...

Why do people collect things? The motivations are as varied as the objects people collect. Perhaps it’s loyalty to a sports team, for instance, or an obsessive desire to accumulate a single kind of ...

How can you spot the gaps in your collection and ensure that it reflects the needs of your community? Diversity audits have been a go-to approach for many libraries, but the data analysis can ...

RIT Libraries’ Offsite Collections facility is located on the Henrietta, NY campus and houses 220,000 items from our low-use collections. Materials include books, journals, microforms, theses, indices ...

“It’s like a museum but with no people, and where you have to do all the work.” Developer and internet artist Darius Kazemi (you might know him from his Twitter bots) has a truly nerdy travel habit: ...

On the curator’s table in the Charles E. Young Research Library lay a book over four centuries old. Devin Fitzgerald, curator of rare books and history of printing at the UCLA Library Special ...

The restricted section of the Hogwarts’ library in “Harry Potter” keeps dangerous and secret books out of the reach of curious students. Students like Harry, Ron and Hermione can only access books in ...

RED ALL OVER: Graffiti on books in the Millar Library at Portland State University. (Courtesy of a reader) Call her a materialist, but when Gaza protesters occupied the library at Portland State ...

This Friday, the Library of Congress celebrates its 220th birthday. The nation's library manages about 410 million digital files — 15.9 petabytes worth of digital collection content. To celebrate, the ...

The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is launching a new vinyl lending library for record aficionados and new initiates alike. Beginning today, patrons can listen to any of 400 records at newly-installed ...