Millennials rely on the Free Library for more than books
Philadelphia’s millennials hold 222,225 library cards — the most when compared with baby boomers and Gen Xers — but they borrow fewer items, data from the...
View ArticlePack Your Bags And Your Books For A Literary Journey With Librarian Nancy Pearl
Seattle librarian Nancy Pearl shares her under-the-radar reading recommendations with Morning Edition’s Steve Inskeep. Her picks will take you on journeys around the world — and...
View ArticleLibrary Acquisition Patterns Report From Ithaka S+R
The findings of this report consist of two distinct areas: 1) an analysis of library book acquisitions within the specified sample for fiscal year 2017 at...
View Article‘Keep the Damned Women Out’ – Fifty years of coeducation at American colleges
Coeducation was a means to shore up a first-rate student body. It was not the result of a high-minded moral commitment to educate women. It was...
View ArticleGrow with Google is heading to libraries in all 50 states, starting today
We’re kicking that work off today in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania—where Benjamin Franklin established America’s first free public library—by hosting in-person workshops for job seekers, small businesses,...
View ArticleWe Need Diverse Books, But Wattpad’s Machines Aren’t The Way
With a community of over 65 million users, Wattpad is bursting with creative potential. From the paranormal to Shrek slash fiction, Wattpad Books will be able...
View ArticleLibrarian Transforms 110-Year-Old Tree into Jaw-Dropping Little Free Library
Talk about a “giving tree”! When a 110-year-old cottonwood tree in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, needed to be removed, Sharalee Armitage Howard—a librarian, artist, and bookbinder—transformed it...
View ArticleCenturies lost ‘Bristol Merlin’ uncovered at city’s Central Library
A chance discovery, hidden away in a series of 16th-century books deep in the archive of Bristol Central Library, has revealed original manuscript fragments from the...
View ArticleStanford Libraries’ transformative gift creates hub highlighting Silicon...
Stanford Libraries has received a $25 million gift from the Harold C. and Marilyn A. Hohbach Foundation to create a vibrant collections-centered research hub and endow...
View ArticleFlorida school uses vending machine to dispense books instead of snacks
A Florida elementary school is using its vending machine to drop knowledge on its students. The vending machine at Umatilla Elementary School started dispensing books to...
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