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Electric lighting has been an enormous boon to readers. Before its advent, reading after dark meant squinting in the flickering ...
Reinterpreting myths, fairy tales, and folk tales is way more than a cottage industry—a castle industry?—in publishing these days. From ...
It’s been a wild few days in the librariosphere. (What? That’s what I’ve decided to call it. Shut up.). Last ...
As a fellow Rioter noted recently, the Doctor is a literary hero. He’s also a library hero. Libraries pop up again ...
Clearly, if we all had an unlimited budget, we’d fill our houses with staircases that doubled as bookshelves. Because: awesome. ...
Late last week, on Twitter, John Overholt (@john_overholt), a curator at Harvard’s Houghton Library, was a bit torn about a ...
As of last week, The Americans is over—at least for a few months. The FX series, which premiered in January, ...
Sixteen thousand. Walk in the fairytale castle that houses the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University ...
It’s been quite a few weeks for little books. First, a collection of thousands of wee readable books got a ...
On May 1, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project released a new report on “Parents, Children, Libraries, ...