Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library to reopen this September
It’s been over a year now since Yale University’s totally great Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library was open to students, scholars, and tourists—which is a bummer, because, I mean,… Read more »
We need to talk about robot librarians
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 »
Mexico City’s Aeromoto library becomes a cultural hub
In 2015 in Mexico City, four friends opened a small library in a private home. Now it’s quickly becoming an integral part of cultural life in the neighborhood of Juárez. Called Aeromoto, the… Read more »
It was the best of times, it was the best of times: The Melville House Fall 2016 Librarian Preview
Last Friday, May 20th, just before 2 pm, we lowered the office drawbridge, opened the office gates, and leashed the office hounds—all in honor of our friends, The Librarians. Indeed,… Read more »
NYPL releases 180,000 high-resolution photos into the public domain
The New York Public Library has just released high-resolution versions of its massive collection of public domain images, all completely free of charge. Under the aegis of the library’s Public… Read more »
And the most checked out book from the UN Library is…
Try and guess what the most popular book at the UN Library is…Go ahead, we’ll wait. … … … Did you guess a guide to, literally, getting away with murder?… Read more »
Los Angeles Public Library to dedicate a branch to poet Wanda Coleman
The Ascot Branch of the Los Angeles Public Library will be dedicated to Wanda Coleman, the woman often referred to as the “unofficial poet laureate” of Los Angeles. According to… Read more »
$2 million is missing from the Toronto Public Library, but does anybody care?
We’ve all done it. We patronize our local library, we bring our books home, set them on the shelf or in a pile, and make a good-hearted attempt to read… Read more »
Architecture firm reveals plans for Brooklyn Heights Public Library branch that look exactly like the Flatiron building
The new building that will replace the Brooklyn Heights Public Library branch in downtown Brooklyn might end up looking exactly like the Flatiron building in Manhattan. According to plans unveiled… Read more »
Budapest’s roller coaster for books
Over the weekend, Gizmodo ran a delightful photo essay by Attila Nagy, about the Telelift, essentially a roller coaster for books that shuttles them around a library in Budapest, Hungary.… Read more »