Indicator Main Reading Room and New York Public Library Central Building Stacks. Source: NYPL Digital Collections The New York Public Library recently announced that it is rethinking its controversial ...

There was a terrific post a little while ago on ACRLog (cross posted at Library Hat) by Bohyun Kim about what it is that appeals to us about being in the stacks of a library. She suspects that the ...

Several years ago Florida Polytechnic University opened a brand-new library. Its architecture, designed by Santiago Calatrava, is striking. Even more striking is what this library lacks: books. I’ll ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chicago – It’s not often that a librarian is warned to stay away from the bookshelves because of high voltage and that students aren’t allowed to roam freely ...

The following article is an op-ed by Susan Bernofsky, chair of the PEN translation committee, originally published on her blog Translationista. Yesterday I was invited to tour the stacks at the 42nd ...