Reader, it had been a long and hard five months since we last met with the Librarians, that estimable gang of Good-protecting know-a-lot-ers and friendly faces. And so when the moment… Read more »

While there are still some doubts about whether or not reading a book automatically makes you a better person, there’s very little contention over the idea that dipping into a good… Read more »

It’s true: there is no such thing as an average librarian. There are, course, camel-riding librarians, and horse-riding librarians. Patriot Act-defying librarians, absurdly generous librarians, and goddamn hero librarians. Absolutely.… Read more »

Let there be no damn doubt about it: the library is a venue in which to be enchanted, not to mention one of the few places—if not the only place—where… Read more »

Clinton Cash, Peter Schweizer’s 2015 investigation into the Clinton Foundation, is generally considered to be a pretty good hit job. Given its author’s day job as senior editor-at-large for alt-right… Read more »

Sigh. It’s an endless battle, keeping these libraries open. You know how it goes: if your branch isn’t being sold off to be turned into luxury condominiums, or converted into… Read more »

We’ve expressed our excitement about Dr. Carla Hayden here before. Back in July of this year, the respected librarian and community leader was appointed to the position of Librarian of… Read more »

To you, regular library-goer, the following will likely not be news. Much more likely it will be the affirmation of something you’ve known or suspected all along: the job of… Read more »

In a 74-18 vote by the US Senate this past Wednesday, Dr. Carla Hayden was confirmed as America’s fourteenth Librarian of Congress. She is simultaenously the first woman and the first African-American to… Read more »

Hot on the heels of one experiment with bookseller-less bookselling, Singapore is seeing yet another robot incursion into a book-handling field typically dominated by humans: library shelving. Coby McDonald reports for Popular Science:… Read more »