The most awe-inspiring site on the Internet is one of the least glamorous. “https://libraryofbabel.info/” doesn’t boast images of staggering beauty, or even any ...

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Standing in for American Library Association (ALA) President Cindy Hohl, who was attending the Coretta Scott King Book Awards, ALA President-elect Sam Helmick began the morning of June 29 by welcoming ...

The world’s oldest known library, the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, in what is today Iraq, was created in the seventh century B.C.E. to store clay tablets used for recordkeeping. Its librarians ...

Visitors look at Library of Us, an installation by British artist Es Devlin, during Miami Art Week. Chandan Khanna / AFP via Getty Images A glowing triangle that rotates like the needle of a compass ...