Sometime in the ’80s, I sat at a table in the town library in Lenox, Mass., doing my eighth-grade algebra homework. A man, probably about the age I am now, appeared in front of me. He wore a ...

I know I seek quiet more than the average person, so I try to rein it in. I only shush people at the movie theater once the movie starts, not during previews. At lectures, I don't turn and glare at ...

The city of Neiman Marcus and Tiffany now has a library to match. Walnut Creek, long a hub of upscale shopping, today opens its long-awaited, new $40 million library, which is as elegant, clean and ...

Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

Cottage Street in Easthampton is a busy street on any night, and this New Year’s Eve is no different. I approach The Library’s front door and am warned by its words that I must be properly dressed to ...

Drunks in tutus, drugs in bathrooms and chick fights in parking lots don’t sound like the stuff of a librarian’s memoir, but Don Borchert’s book has them all. In his recently published “Free for All: ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In here, it just smells ...

It may have been overshadowed by the debate about the sports complex, but plans to expand and renovate the Pasadena's central library building on Jeff Ginn could have an equally major impact on the ...

Betty spends each Thursday morning there, reading to children, filing and processing books and visiting with readers of all ages. She loves the work of Louisa May Alcott and the classics. In between, ...