Stacks of cardboard boxes, many still taped shut, sit in an office on the fourth floor of Loussac Library in Midtown Anchorage. They contain a backlog of hundreds of new books that librarians must ...

When Mary Cooper downsized her home, she brought boxes of her late mother’s belongings to her new home. Sorting through them after the move, Cooper, 81, discovered an artifact — a library book 99 ...

They come for vintage classics and children's hardbacks and historical romance. They slide titles off metal shelves and fill paper sacks. They browse for hours, scanning spines for the perfect read.