History Extra podcast: The librarian who stole KGB secrets
When an elderly man with a battered suitcase walked into the British embassy in Vilnius in 1992, few could have guessed what he was about to hand over. Gordon Corera…
The wonderful Leo Politi
who documented LA in children’s books via - Greg Ruben
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Mr. Baker discussed his book Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, published by Random House. He explained that the term "double fold" describes a method used by librarians…
Weeding is Fundamental Revisited
Libraries get rid of books all the time. There are so many new books coming in every day and only a finite amount of library space. The practice of freeing…
Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fandom in the Norman V. Lamb Gothic Fantasy Collection
Queen’s University Library has been collaborating with the Internet Archive on a digitization project that uses Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to digitally loan items from our print collection using technological…
How the Public Library Became an American Civic Institution
Free For All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's…
Little free blockbuster kiosks
locations spawning all around the country
Carnival Collection
Tulane university library catalog
The Woman’s Building
Los Angeles
A Library Grows in Norway
On the outskirts of Oslo, just beyond the point where the city dissolves into forest, one thousand spruce saplings reach feathery green fingers toward the sky. Just over ten years…