Salinas, CA -- October 5, 2009 -- On Sunday, September 27, 15,000 people--that's ten percent of the town's population--turned out to celebrate the 100...
To truly open the future of books and reading, consumers must be freed from proprietary devices and formats. We owe it to those who came before us to bring access to as many as possible.
Under a little-known contract provision titled "Extreme Temperature Procedures," unionized workers at branches of the New York Public Library can accr...
Substantial gains could be achieved by organizing everyday activities that grow neurological abilities and sustain brain health. If the ordinary citizen is to achieve brain fitness, they'll need to work at it.
Libraries are about people. Not books. Although without them, we would have no libraries. When we gather under the sanctuary of a roof to read together, we know we belong.
At the discussion about the Byers Library, or the session about Lake Middle School, the anger was the same, the distrust of the bureaucracy was the same, and the total exasperation was the same.
Walking through the doors of the Edgewater Library, the first thing you notice are the books, piled a foot high on counter tops and crammed into more ...
With their proprietary software for Kindle readers only, Amazon has adapted a "we-win, you-lose," VHS vs. Betamax business model.
Libraries are taking on a new mission to help promote cognitive health in their communities and using the concept of brain fitness.
Would it be newsworthy if busy hospitals became far busier during the flu season? Of course not. So why is it newsworthy that public libraries are busy during a recession?
New York City's public library systems are once again under siege, on the chopping block, threatened with draconian cuts in the face of New York City's Great Recession.
Patrons of the Schaumburg Township District Library have never been allowed to bring in the noise. Now they can't bring in the funk. The library rece...
Our current economic situation offers each of us an opportunity to realign our values, to stop buying more than we can sustain, and to look out for those who have so much less than they need to survive.
If more book-lovers become book-buyers, perhaps the publishing industry's woes will ease, and the 14% who buy more than 20 books a year will explode next time Random House takes a survey.
There is a longstanding preemptive element to the public library: for every child or teenager with their head in a textbook or glazing through that day's homework is one less idle mind wreaking criminal havoc.
Libraries exist as centers of culture, community and learning. For many Americans, the public library is the only option they have for financial advice and information to secure their families' futures.
