Andrew Polk, 26, teaches 10th-grade English in suburban Ohio, not far from where he grew up. As a high school student less ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

If you’re still paying full price for audiobooks while you’re in uniform, you’re probably leaving money on the table. Between public libraries, free apps, and the DoD’s own digital library, you can ...

The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out why the New York ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

PITTSFIELD — Some 40,000 books destroyed by mold and insects — it’s a librarian’s worst nightmare. In August, Karen Carreras-Hubbard, coordinator of library services at Berkshire Community College, ...

In the popular children’s book “Charlotte’s Web,” the title character, a spider, uses her web as an instrument of good to help secure the freedom of Wilbur, a pig on her farm. Federal immigration ...