Dear Librarians, Many of you might already know how important libraries have been in my life—I grew up in a town that didn’t have a bookstore until I was a… Read more »

On June 21st, Melville House will relaunch a highly popular piece of programming, the Librarian Preview. Beginning at 2:30PM at our offices in the heart of DUMBO, Brooklyn, we invite… Read more »

Have you heard of Nintendo’s latest bold interactive experiment, Labo? Like most Nintendo innovations, it breaks down into amazingly simple ingredients that, when combined, become something else entirely. In Labo’s… Read more »

Yesterday, the Trump administration released its proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year, which will begin on October 1. It includes, of course, huge (huuuuge!) increases for military and border… Read more »

Nicholas Wade at the New York Times wrote earlier this week about a groudbreaking archival project currently underway at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. If all… Read more »

This past Sunday morning, the New York Observer columnist Andre Walker took to Twitter to declare the following: “Nobody goes to libraries anymore. Close the public ones and put the… Read more »

Way before Amazon started delivering books via flying robots (that’s how it works, right?), Depression-era women librarians were delivering books by horseback in the secluded mountains of Kentucky. The Pack Horse Library was part… Read more »

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 »

The Klencke Atlas, a collection of forty-one extremely rare wall maps, is one of the largest books ever printed. Produced in 1660, a time when the physical size of a… Read more »

Folks, we had a good run. But recent events have clearly demonstrated that humans simply can’t hack it as the dominant species on the planet. We need help. Luckily, robot… Read more »