In just ten years nearly a fifth of the UK’s libraries have closed, reports Alison Flood for the Guardian. Correspondingly, “the number of paid librarians has also plummeted” (from 24,000 to… Read more »

Libraries in San Diego are forgiving a big debt: the city library system is erasing $2 million in overdue book fines. According to a report from Cat Schuknecht at NPR,… Read more »

As a teenager, John Bunn was wrongly convicted of murder. After 17 years in jail, he spent the next decade on parole and fought for his exoneration. Now, after 27… Read more »

Last month, I had the chance to attend the Urban Librarians Conference here in Brooklyn. As I listened to librarians discuss the changing spaces they manage, they talked about more than… Read more »

Last week, according to a story in the BBC, Georgia Grainger, a librarian at Charleston Community Library in Dundee, Scotland went viral on Twitter after sharing her story about a mystery… Read more »

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 »

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 »

There is no conceivable good that will come of this. Things will not improve. But there is a chance that we can mitigate or avoid some of the most horrifying… Read more »

As the country struggles in the aftermath of Wednesday night’s revolting act of violence in Charleston, we’re learning more about the nine victims, who have all now been identified. –State… Read more »

A jaw-droppingly beautiful mobile library is doing the rounds of Mexico City. A local arts nonprofit, Alumnos47, had been working for years to bring a brick-and-mortar library of art books… Read more »