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…
This Savvy Librarian Was the True Force Behind New York’s Iconic Morgan Library
It fell to Belle da Costa Greene, a Black woman whose racial identity was kept secret for decades, to catalog J.P. Morgan’s immense collection of books and art Toward the…
CuriosiD: Is the Main Branch of the Detroit Public Library haunted?
WDET’s CuriosiD series answers your questions about everything Detroit. Subscribe to CuriosiD on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, NPR.org or wherever you get your podcasts. In this episode of CuriosiD, we answer the question: “Is the Main Branch of…
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