Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chicago – It’s not often that a librarian is warned to stay away from the bookshelves because of high voltage and that students aren’t allowed to roam freely ...

Indicator Main Reading Room and New York Public Library Central Building Stacks. Source: NYPL Digital Collections The New York Public Library recently announced that it is rethinking its controversial ...

Enter the glorious Rose Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library on a weekday afternoon, and you'll find almost every chair filled. Scholars and researchers still submit their ...

Art Miller turned to the five freshmen and one graduate student assembled before him in the lobby of Firestone Library. "This place is huge," he said soberly, "and it can be confusing, but we have a ...

In three days, the New York Public Library is holding a public meeting to discuss the renovation of the main branch at Bryant Park at 42nd Street and the Mid-Manhattan Library. Last year, following ...

Have you ever wondered how many books and other items make up the combined inventory of the Columbus Metropolitan Library and its branches? The year that the oldest title was secured, perhaps? Or how ...

There was a terrific post a little while ago on ACRLog (cross posted at Library Hat) by Bohyun Kim about what it is that appeals to us about being in the stacks of a library. She suspects that the ...

Madison Public Library often provides its patrons with food for thought with books, reference materials and other informative resources. On the evening of March 23, however, the library served up ...