School libraries come in many forms. They may be book sanctuaries, hangout spots for learners during noninstructional time, technologically advanced media centers full of activity tubs and work tables ...

How can you spot the gaps in your collection and ensure that it reflects the needs of your community? Diversity audits have been a go-to approach for many libraries, but the data analysis can ...

Why do people collect things? The motivations are as varied as the objects people collect. Perhaps it’s loyalty to a sports team, for instance, or an obsessive desire to accumulate a single kind of ...

“It’s like a museum but with no people, and where you have to do all the work.” Developer and internet artist Darius Kazemi (you might know him from his Twitter bots) has a truly nerdy travel habit: ...

RIT Libraries’ Offsite Collections facility is located on the Henrietta, NY campus and houses 220,000 items from our low-use collections. Materials include books, journals, microforms, theses, indices ...

On the curator’s table in the Charles E. Young Research Library lay a book over four centuries old. Devin Fitzgerald, curator of rare books and history of printing at the UCLA Library Special ...

The pandemic may have stalled some establishments, but not Cal State Fullerton’s Pollak Library. In the last year, renovations were completed, special collections were added and accessibility to the ...

ORIGIN STORY: F.A. Sondley’s personal library, shown in this historical photo, forms the core of the current Buncombe County Special Collections in Pack Memorial Library. Image by E.M. Ball, courtesy ...

This Friday, the Library of Congress celebrates its 220th birthday. The nation's library manages about 410 million digital files — 15.9 petabytes worth of digital collection content. To celebrate, the ...