Humans don't always treat books with the respect they deserve. Some of us are spine-benders, while others are page-folders. But, this one is something we've not seen before. A library in Ayer, ...

You might have missed it, but a passage in author Christopher Hitchens’s 2010 memoir, Hitch-22, triggered a happy buzz among library bloggers at the time, and it can still judder the heart of library ...

No one knew what to make of the strange-looking bike on the corner of 24th and Bartlett streets. It was parked outside of the San Francisco Public Library Mission Branch on a windy Saturday afternoon.

Books have been a passion of mine (not discussing others) since my parents began reading to me at an early age. The kindly old (she was probably a lot younger than I am) children’s librarian at the ...