Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

SOMETIME in the ’80s, I sat at a table in the town library in Lenox, Mass., doing my eighth-grade algebra homework. A man, probably about the age I am now, appeared in front of me. He wore a ...

The deep recession is not only casting a pall over the future — it’s ruining the past, too. In a cost-saving measure, the Brooklyn Historical Society says it must end Saturday access to its archive, ...

Nintendo Power, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and a biography of President Obama were on prominent display as I entered the branch library in Forest Hills, Queens. The librarian looked skeptical when I ...

Carol Moss Kirkwood does not have a favorite librarian joke. Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor? Her eyebrows rise slightly, preparing for the impact of an awful punch line.

ARLINGTON, Texas -- With its rooftop garden, sewing machines, 3-D printers, power tools and video game consoles, the new library in downtown Arlington looks nothing like a library of the past. “The ...

I know I seek quiet more than the average person, so I try to rein it in. I only shush people at the movie theater once the movie starts, not during previews. At lectures, I don't turn and glare at ...

It may have been overshadowed by the debate about the sports complex, but plans to expand and renovate the Pasadena's central library building on Jeff Ginn could have an equally major impact on the ...