Interesting Idea from a collaboration in Boston born at a convention of the Commonwealth Honors Council held at the library’s main branch in Copley Square two years ago. Cheryl Nixon, a professor of ...

“I’m curious whether there are good prospects for ‘time capsule encryption,’ one of several ways of storing information that renders it inaccessible to anyone until certain conditions — such as the ...

vonjobi writes “The Congress of Southeast Asian Librarians (CONSAL) will be holding its General Conference in Manila from 25-30 March 2006. The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended ...

According to ChatGTP, below are the main themes of this year’s library headlines (using Library Link of the Day as the source): Highlighting state legislation targeting librarians, legal battles in ...

“ Organized crime ” usually refers to illegal activity as a collaborative enterprise, involving large networks of people and undertaken for profit or power. That’s too damned bad, really, because ...

“It’s not just about taking a book off a shelf,” said Tasslyn Magnusson, an author and teacher from Wisconsin who tracks book censorship across the U.S. “It’s about power and who controls public ...

Britannica Didn’t Just Survive. It’s an A.I. Company Now. The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is ...

“It’s a unique inventory,” Kristi imparted to me. “There’s so much here. Each book has been lovingly curated. I love the books. I have a connection with the books. It’s like a madness. When I go to ...

A new exhibit called “A Librarian’s Legacy” opened this month, just in time for the Morgan’s 100th anniversary. It traces Greene’s life and her lasting influence as the library’s first director.

A Virginia library was in for a surprise when a book was returned 50 years late! Late last month, Hopewell Library in Hopewell, Va. posted a video on Facebook about a patron who checked out Leaves of ...

Book returned to Cumbria school library 113 years overduePoetry of Byron borrowed by schoolboy Leonard Ewbank, who studied at Oxford and was killed at Ypres in ...

It’s again time (for the 20th time!) for a look back at the notable library stories from the last year. In September, Lizzo toured the Library of Congress, stopping to play a crystal flute that once ...