Penny’s new novel, The Black Wolf, imagines Canada being pressured to become the 51st U.S. state. She canceled all U.S. book ...

The small brick plaza in front of the Pella, Iowa, public library was teeming with people. A gray-haired woman in a T-shirt stood stoically beside a large banner bearing a Bible quote with chapter and ...

Libraries are a portal to understanding a place’s values, its relationship with knowledge, and its vision of who belongs ...

Is the Long Branch Free Public Library haunted by the "Librarian in Black"? Check out why it may be, plus other haunted libraries around New Jersey.

The name Belle da Costa Greene might not ring a bell, but New York's historic Morgan Library and Museum is trying to change that. A new exhibit called "A Librarian's Legacy" opened this month, just in ...

Marion McCarthy was in seventh grade the first time she ever went to a library. “I’ll never forget to this day, walking in there and seeing all those books. I couldn’t get over it — I was just so ...

Throughout March, we will be celebrating Women's History Month with photos in the Flickr Commons and a series of blog posts about women from the Archives' collections. As we celebrate Women’s History ...

Killer clowns, spiders and menacing dolls will greet visitors of the South Oxnard Branch Library's Haunted Library. It's the second year the library has offered after-hour tours of a space transformed ...