Government’s “unbothered” response to libraries petition
After a whopping 30,000 signatures, the United Kingdom finally responded to this petition to protect public library funds: “Nah, that’s not our job.” To recap: The petition demanded that the government… Read more »
People, return your damn books to the library, maybe within 25 years? No? Is that too much to ask?
Step 1: Discover that one of your parents lazily never returned a book at the local library. Step 2: Casually toss the book in the library’s book drop. Step 3: Achieve… Read more »
Study discovers reading can ease mental health and loneliness, asks for £200 million in literacy aid
Literacy charity Reading Agency and UK think tank Demos teamed up to raise awareness for the transformative power of reading. The 50-page study calls for a £200 million government investment to promote reading. Journalist Arifa Akbar… Read more »
British Library to open exhibition all about literature’s favorite cats
Calling all crazy cat lovers! Are online cat videos and memes not fulfilling your feline fanaticism? Ailis Brennan of Go London reports that this November, the British Library is offering a… Read more »
Good people send books and money to Iowa library to replace burned LGBTQ books
Last week we shared the most recent news about Iowa’s Orange City Library (there have been a few stories over the past year): local resident Paul Dorr revealed himself as… Read more »
Tundra pressure: Antarctic scientist turns on colleague who kept revealing book endings
It was a scene that started mundanely – and by the end, could have been lifted from The Thing. At a remote research centre on King George’s Island in Antarctica, over 500 miles off the coast… Read more »
A grown man in Iowa burned LGBTQ children’s books and live-streamed it on Facebook
Something is rotten in the state of Iowa. As we reported back in February of this year, homophobes petitioned to have books with LGBTQ themes removed from general circulation at… Read more »
Soon, all U.S. public libraries will have Narcan
In a new move to combat the ongoing opioid crisis, libraries are going to step up to the plate. As reported in multiple media outlets, including Time, Emergent BioSolutions will… Read more »
Todd Bol, founder of Little Free Library, has died
“Take a book, share a book,” is the slogan written across teeny wooden houses filled with books on the street sides across the United States and 80 other countries. We… Read more »
Will Oldham narrates new local library documentary
Will Oldham, the man behind beloved indie music projects like Palace and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, is also a man of letters. He has published the cleverly named Will Oldham on Bonnie… Read more »