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December 3, 2020

Tokyo’s Waseda University to Open the Haruki Murakami Library Next Year

With novels such as Norwegian Wood, Kafka on the Shore, and IQ84, Japanese author Haruki…

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September 17, 2020

Drag Queens Protest a Bill that Would Outlaw Story Time

Drag Queens and other demonstrators in Missouri, U.S. have been protesting against the introduction of…

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September 8, 2020

Nearly 400 Years After It First Tried to Buy It, the Herzog August Bibliothek Has Finally Bought the ‘Friendship Book’ for £2.5m

In 1648, Duke Augustus the Younger of the House of Welf tried, but failed, to…

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August 27, 2020

Genius School Librarian Sends Not So Subtle Message to Boris Johnson

Today Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom gave a speech to a group…

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June 26, 2020

English Libraries Set to Reopen 4th July as Lockdown Rules Relaxed

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to grind to a halt, with most shops,…

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June 23, 2020

Library Reads Out of Print Book to 102-Year-Old Patron During Lockdown

It seems the world doesn’t agree on much right now, but one thing I think…

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April 26, 2020

Library cleaner rearranges books in size order

A library cleaner giving a locked-down library a deep clean decided to re-shelve all of…

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March 15, 2020

9 Ways to Access Books and Stories if Your Library is Closed for Lockdown

Across the world, the shutters are coming down and the closed signs going up as…

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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…

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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…

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