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In June, 22-year-old music journalist Jenzia Burgos posted a slideshow on Instagram and wrote, “If you don’t know…
Jan 14 2020
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The children’s section of the library, with its tiny tables, story hours, and kid-height shelves of books intended…
Feb 22 2018
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A public library in Iowa is reviewing policies on including LGBTQ literature after more than 340 residents…
Oct 19 2017
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Libraries are one of the great civic institutions—places that are free and open to everybody and also full of books.…
Sep 14 2017
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The new documentary Ex Libris - The New York Public Library works like a Russian nesting doll of information about…
Apr 27 2017
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Ever wondered how they clean dirty, dusty library books? It’s this whimsical practical mini car wash, apparently. At…
Oct 19 2015
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Once upon a time—midcentury America, to be precise—you couldn’t turn to the Google search bar with all your most…
Jun 14 2014
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Back in 1953, the world was a different place. We were somewhere between a Truman and an Eisenhower presidency,…
Oct 22 2013
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The new book Library: A World History, is filled with gorgeous photography of book palaces around the world. That…
Mar 4 2013
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According to unnamed Gothamist sources, the Hunger Games trilogy was checked out more than any other books in NYC…
Feb 14 2013
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This Valentine's Day, tell that bro to get lost*, and lose yourself in a good book!
Jan 15 2013
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Spurred by reading Walter Isaacson's two-million page love letter to Steve Jobs, San Antonio County Judge Nelson W.…
Dec 16 2012
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Katie already reported on the phenomenon of library sex — please sing that in your heads to the tune of Birthday Sex…
May 22 2012
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More than 10 million copies of Fifty Shades of Grey have been sold in the past six weeks, a rate its publisher says…
May 10 2012
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The erotica spectacle known as the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy may be a hit with the ladies, but it's not so…
Feb 28 2012
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Here's something to make you smile: bibliophiles all over the country are setting up Little Libraries, teeny tiny…
Feb 22 2012
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A woman in California has been slapped with $7,600 in fines and ordered to stay away from public libraries after it…
Sep 7 2011
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People in Georgia can rest easier, knowing that police are protecting them from moms who make a scene in libraries.…
Mar 29 2011
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In what book lovers may see as a sign of the coming end times, a California library is considering eliminating all…
Jan 16 2011
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Former creative outspoken nerdy children, curse that you weren't born late enough to participate in the "90 Second…