February 26, 2016

In a press release officially posted online on February 24th, President Obama announced that he was nominating Carla D. Hayden, the head of Baltimore’s library system and former president of the… Read more »

Libraries & librarians

The Big Jubilee Read: 70 books are selected to mark Queen Elizabeth II's 70 year reign — Nikki Griffiths
Theories abound after anonymous return of Darwin's notebooks — Tom Clayton
"Wot, No Books?" Milton Keynes library saved after protesters check out its entire stock — Tom Clayton
Belgian publisher donates over a thousand books to railway station libraries — Tom Clayton

TIME will tell, Evelyn Waugh was a woman

Chad Felix

Yesterday morning, TIME magazine’s David Johnson posted an article entitled “These Are the 100 Most-Read Female Writers in College Classes.” Included in this post was a man named Arthur Evelyn St. John… Read more »

750 million sign call to action for global literacy

Taylor Sperry

There are around 757 million people in the world who cannot read or write. Roughly that same number of people (as of today: 757,004,950) have signed a petition sponsored by… Read more »

More trouble for Angoulême Comics Festival

Zeljka Marosevic

What’s going on at Angoulême International Comics Festival? Back in January, we reported that ten artists nominated for the festival’s prestigious Grand Prix had withdrawn from the prize in protest… Read more »

Melville House Books

Obama nominates Carla D. Hayden for Librarian of Congress

Julia Fleischaker