In Brief
In a deal on the fiscal year 2016 budget struck late Monday night, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito announced an extra $39 million for the city's libraries.
Books
Arriving by camel in remote areas of Mongolia or on boat along the coast of Norway, contemporary libraries are often mobile, creative, and community-driven, and are adapting rather than fading with the rise of electronic books and decrease in budgets.
News
On Sunday night, more than 8,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed after ISIS militants bombed Mosul's Central Library.
Art
Despite the vast and growing resources available online, much of the world's knowledge and history remains ephemeral and under threat of disappearance.
Art
Up on a hill in a guarded compound, not far from where Harvard University keeps its primate labs, a 127,000-square-foot structure holds the heart of the institution's library.
News
A new survey by the Pew Research Center has found that the 16–29 demographic in the United States reads books and patronizes libraries at rates higher than those exhibited by adults over 30.
Books
Walking into my local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library, it looks more or less like any other: computers to the left, children’s section to the right, non-fiction dead ahead. It’s only when I go upstairs to the already small fiction section that I see something abnormal: more shelves are empty t
News
The New York Public Library (NYPL) has done an about-face on its controversial plan to renovate its flagship research building on 42nd Street and sell the nearby building that currently houses its Mid-Manhattan library, the New York Times has reported.
Books
Though the internet may have upended the physical dimension of recorded knowledge, The Borough is My Library zines, created by library workers in the New York City area, harness that accessibility and create a dialogue around the future of such brick-and-mortar institutions amid the swell of digital
News
Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — Take a stroll downtown or to your nearest shopping center, and you'll see firsthand that big bookstores are on the decline. But that doesn't mean books — and the spaces in which we consume them — have less importance.
Opinion
As more and more people get their information and do their research online, often from the comfort of their own couches, the future of public libraries seems very much up for the debate these days. Should libraries ship some of their books off to storage facilities and bring in more computers, as th