6,000 books destroyed in Phoenix Library flood
It is monsoon season in the Valley of the Sun, Phoenix, Arizona. That’s right, buckaroo, the 120-plus-degree summer afternoon hellscapes that bring life here to a standstill are punctuated by evenings… Read more »
About those books in chains on Game of Thrones
(NB The following contains minor spoilers for Games of Thrones season 7, episode 1.) Last week, we were graced with the long-awaited return of everyone’s favorite politically-charged, blood-and-violence-infused fantasy series: Game of… Read more »
Pew report finds millennials are the absolute best generation (at going to libraries)
Back in those breezy, know-nothing days of 2014, Russia invaded Crimea, Ebola was terrifying the masses, and we were reporting on a Pew Research Center study that suggested millennials used libraries as much… Read more »
When you wish upon a university library…
Librarians at the University of Missouri are hoping Christmas comes early this year. They wrote a wish list of books they want for their library and sent it to the… Read more »
What’s the collective noun for twenty white, longlisted authors?
Ah, the nuance and beauty of the collective noun. Everyone has their favourite, from a murder of crows to a shrewdness of apes or an obstinacy of buffalo. Lane Smith’s book There… Read more »
The ceiling in the Rose Reading Room is broken again
After a piece of plaster fell from the ceiling of the New York Public Library’s iconic Rose Reading Room in 2014, the space was closed off for a staggering two-and-a-half… Read more »
Add this great story to the list of reasons you love librarians
Today’s feel-good story comes from Carolyn Johnson, librarian extraordinaire at Saint Francis International School in Silver Spring, Maryland. What did she do? Oh, she just collected 2,000 books (yes, that’s… Read more »
When the Librarians came to Melville House: Fall 2017 Edition
This past Friday, June 9th, we here at Melville House were lucky enough to spend the afternoon with some of the finest folks around, the Librarians, on the occasion of… Read more »
One Philadelphia library deals with the ravages of the opioid epidemic
As we’ve previously discussed on MobyLives, libraries across the country seem to be expanding their services to patrons who are most in need. In the past couple of years, libraries in… Read more »
At the Denver Public Library, helping the homeless is a necessary challenge
As we’ve previously written, while libraries across the country face potentially reduced funding under President Trump’s budget plan, it’s easy to forget just how expansive their roles in our communities are. Earlier this… Read more »