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…
curationist
Reimagine CultureCurationist is a free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives. https://www.curationist.org
New College of Florida tosses hundreds of library books, empties gender diversity library
Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft…
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Brownies
The Brownies’ Book, a serial published in 1920 and 1921.