When you are part of a company that is trying to digitize all the books in the world, the first question you often get is: "Just how many books are ou...

The gay-themed book Revolutionary Voices, an anthology of first-person works by youths in New Jersey, has been quietly pulled from library shelves in ...

As a librarian and a reader, my goal is always to ferret out (and introduce other readers to) books -- both fiction, poetry, and nonfiction -- that ar...

Every library has them: titles in the collection that we stumble upon and think, "What is this doing here?"

A little over a decade ago, if anyone had told Vimala and Umesh Malhotra that their mission in life would be to set up libraries for children, they wo...

The survey, released this year by OCLC, a nonprofit library co-operative and research organization, found that public libraries in the United States l...

Call it a hunch, but it seems to me that the thing is in the air that happens right before something -- families with a million kids, cupcakes, weddin...

For hours on end, he would peruse the shelves of the Lindley Library in London, admiring their collection of books, journals and art which dates back ...

Books are precious to me. If I am going to ask people to spend time and money on a book I've written, it better be one that broke my own heart in the process of writing it.

Old Spice's excellent viral marketing campaign has swept the web over the past couple of days, as the "Old Spice Guy," Isaiah Mustafa, has been busily...

Maybe those dark circles around a raccoon's eyes come from reading too much -- and in the dark. A specimen of the mammal -- better known for rummagin...

WASHINGTON — When David Rubenstein was a boy growing up in a blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood, he was keenly drawn to its downtown library. No...

Longwood parent Tina Harden was so disturbed by references to sex and drugs and foul language in the world of fictional teenager Jenny Humphrey that s...

For many, libraries are the only safe haven around, and yet Boston, Massachusetts, Jacksonville, Florida, and Los Angles, California are just three of the cities considering closing libraries to deal with budget shortfalls.

So, Veronica, you've been a custodian for...how long have you worked for NYPL? 25 years....

Using burgers and book bags as an enticement, McDonald's and Detroit Public Library officials announced Wednesday the launch of a new partnership that...

The verdict: the need for quality Spanish-language books is only growing stronger, and the economic downturn is driving readers to libraries in search...

Today, in acknowledgment of Library Advocacy Day, Sony revealed its new Reader Library Program. The program aims to support the expansion of public li...

Today is Library Advocacy Day, and it couldn't come at a more crucial time, as library branches are being cut with greater and greater frequency. Desp...

Authors receive just over six pence per loan, up to a cap of £6,600, through the Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme, something many describe as a "lif...