Their nightstand has the usual things on it. A lamp. A glass of water that's been there long enough to create a film. A tube ...

From its mid-century origins to its current Grand Avenue home, the Mars Area Public Library enters its next era the same way ...

On a quiet Friday morning, Tricia Sturm takes a few minutes to open the curtains of the Belmont Public Library, casting sun ...

From streaming royalties to algorithm-driven discovery, Bettendorf Public Library's latest nonfiction recommendation takes a ...

Keep heavier books on lower shelves, displaying them horizontally. Place them in stacks of no more than three. As a general ...

Mark had lost count of how many times he had walked past his daughter Emily’s bedroom at night and seen the same worn ...

Umberto Eco kept thirty thousand books and had finished almost none. Japan has a word for the habit, and a far kinder verdict ...

Looking for your next summer read? Bettendorf Public Library recommends a novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean ...

Second Hand Prose is a used bookstore operated by the Friends of the Georgetown Public Library, a nonprofit with more than ...

Melvil Dewey was a cash-strapped Amherst College student in the early 1870s, working at the school library to pay his bills. An intense young scholar, Dewey felt at home among the books. There was ...

Daniel Handler, famed children’s author known for his "Series of Unfortunate Events" books, once wrote: “All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.” And on July 18, as ...

Over the past few weeks, staff and volunteers have been placing books back on the shelves and putting other items in place.