Today is World Day Against Cyber Censorship. Launched by Reporters Without Borders in 2008, its goal is to raise…

Public libraries are a national treasure that few people seem to appreciate anymore, but I am here to tell you that…

The New York Public Library’s Rose Main Reading Room is one of the most majestic spaces in the city. Unfortunately…

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When a study gets published and its results enter our collective body of scientific knowledge it feels like it's…

To kick off its 2013 Summer Reading Program, the Seattle Public Library set a world record with a…

Rotterdam has a new public library called Book Mountain, and it's exactly what the name suggests. A pyramid-shaped…

Since 2003, three students at New York University have jumped to their deaths from the atrium-facing staircases…

We all watch porn. We all like porn. We don't all need to watch the porn we like in the library. In fact, we should…

If you pay close attention to the streets of any city, you might notice the boxy, armored shields that house…

If you were worried that ebooks might kill off the public good of the library loaner, here's reason to worry a…

This library in Japan is made with bookshelves. Which doesn't sound all that cool, right? A library in ordinary…

250,000 of the British Library's out-of-copyright books from 1700 to 1870 will be digitized by Google, both sides…

Man, sometimes all you want is to just settle in at the library, fire up some internet porn, and have yourself a…

Amazon's announced—but not yet activated—a new service that will let you take out (read: download) ebooks from your…

When I first saw this photo I thought it was really strange. For some reason, my brain didn't believe it was real.…

I'm sad because I'm part of the problem—the last time I visited a library was to photocopy something. According to…

If information is power, then there's no hero mightier than a librarian. Librarians are superheroes, adventurers,…