February 22, 2020
New York Public Library Release Cache of Queries to Librarians and It’s Utterly Fascinating
We ask Google questions that people may never know every single day, some useless, many…
February 18, 2020
Free Black Women’s Library – Boosting the Stories of Black Women
OlaRonke Akinmowo is a Brooklyn-based artist who first developed the Free Black Women’s Library, a…
February 4, 2020
Ancient Book Discovered in the Coffin of Saint Cuthbert
The oldest intact book in Europe has been discovered inside a coffin of an ancient…
February 2, 2020
10-year-old girl borrows her 1,700th book from local library
A 10-year-old girl from Basingstoke, UK, withdrew her 1,700th book this week! Olivia Brazier attends…
February 1, 2020
Library visits have risen in the US and fallen in the UK
Library use in the USA has risen in the past few years, but has fallen…
January 19, 2020
Book ban bill threatens to imprison librarians
A bill has been proposed in Missouri this month that attempts to legalise book banning…
January 16, 2020
The NYPL List Most Checked-out Books of all Time
The New York Public Library was founded more than a century ago, and as such…
January 15, 2020
$500k worth of books stolen from Carnegie Library
$500k worth of rare books were stolen from Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, USA. Two men…
December 23, 2019
NY Public Library Top Ten Book Checkouts 2019
The New York Public Library is the second largest public library system in the US,…