One of the reasons we have ancient Greek literatur...  ...wanted to display their fitness to succeed him. A library full of classic texts was one way to signal the w...  ...ent on having the most prestigious texts in their library .To us, those books are all ancient, forgery or no...  ...oning those who might le...

(Photos: New York Society Library )If I could live at the library where I work . . . yeah, actually, I'm going to p...  ...new bedtime book after hours.The New York Society Library , which is a subscription library , employed the Thornberry f...

American public libraries and the librarians who w...  ...quo; which he first delivered at his local public library in Aurora, Illinois. He expected it would be a on...  ...including the homeless. The San Francisco Public Library even hired a full-time social worker in 2009. Sev...

Long Beach City College is a community college in...  ...novel way. So they created the most extraordinary library promotional videos I've ever seen.[https://www.yo...  ...ere the librarians, led by their larger-than-life library director, Ramchandran Sethuraman, delivered a pre...  ...oject consists of 4 modula...

(Photos: Paschalville Branch/Free Library of Philadelphia)One of the roles of the public library in American society is to be the source of a Plan...  ...provided that service. But what would happen if a library could provide that service in-house?The Paschalvi...  ...vice i...

Neatorama is proud to bring you an excerpt from th...  ...viously at Neatorama). It's the true story of two library cats who brought an entire community together beg...  ...eginning in 1983. It all started with mice in the library .Assistant librarian Jan Louch and a coworker deci...  ...an Jan Louch and a cowor...

"Is this nonfiction? Is this just fantasy?"The sta...  ...librarian behavior. Every time I go into my local library (not that I have time for books, but they have a...

library in Portland, Maine. How you see his job depends o...  ...e. How you see his job depends on how you use the library . While he stays on the lookout for people who use...  ...buse the facility, he also keeps in mind that the library ’s mission is to serve all of the pu...

(Photo: Eva Murray)A hobby of my youth was to driv...  ...s of modern life. But they do, now, have a public library . It's housed inside an 8 by 20 foot utility shed....  ...dent of the island, writes about this cute little library in the Penobscot Bay Pilot. When complete, the library...

(Photo: AKB)The architecture firm Atelier Kastelic...  ...ey (AKB) developed the Story Pod--a free, lending library that sits in a park in Newmarket, Ontario. During...