Books Revisited, the all-volunteer, library-sustaining bookstore of Alamogordo, New Mexico, is back in business!
Alamogordo, New Mexico has recently been graced with the reopening of Books Revisited — the town’s only general-interest book store, making a new home for itself at the local White Sands Mall. Nicole Maxwell covered… Read more »
Banksy wants to help save Bristol’s libraries
The library system in the UK has been having a rough old time of it in recent years. Since 2010, at least 478 libraries have closed according to Natasha Onwuemezi at The… Read more »
Oakland librarians have produced a guide to children’s books about the police
In Oakland, a library has put together a guide to evaluating children’s books about the police, Andrew Stelzer reports for KQED. Oakland Public Library children’s collection management librarian Amy Martin… Read more »
Arsenic and old books
I have heard it said by several insiders at several publishing houses that green books don’t sell. It’s true that you don’t see a whole lot of them, especially when compared… Read more »
Beach libraries are the new wave
It is officially beach season, which means it’s officially beach reading season. And while there are a ton of lists that will tell you which books to bring to the beach, we’re… Read more »
A literary architect is erecting a swanky library In Queens
I jog a route from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, where I live, to Hunter’s Point, Queens, directly north. Hunter’s Point, the slim neighborhood wedged between Long Island City and the East River, is home to a… Read more »
Another One Bites the Dust: Florida State University backs away from “Big Deal” subscription packages
Florida State University’s libraries are in negotiations with Elsevier about an impending pricing issue, according to Diana Kwon writing in the Scientist this week. Back in April, the libraries announced that, due to the “high… Read more »
The New York City subway gets its first Little Free Library
New York City has received its first underground mini-library. Little Free Library, the nonprofit organization dedicated to spreading a love for reading through a network of small, free neighborhood book exchanges,… Read more »
The Baltimore library system is eliminating overdue fines
Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library system has some big news: they’re eliminating overdue fines on late books, according to a recent report by Yvonne Wenger at the Baltimore Sun. They also plan… Read more »
The Library of Congress gets a little hipper with a massive donation of comics
As they say, and have always said: if you love something, give it away … to the Library of Congress. That is exactly what collector Stephen A. Geppi has done with part of… Read more »