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 ...

KINGSTON — When you walk into a library, you expect to see people reading a book, not eating doughnuts or doing a craft. The Hoyt Library on Saturday morning mixed things up a bit with an event called ...

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.

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, ...

The city of Neiman Marcus and Tiffany now has a library to match. Walnut Creek, long a hub of upscale shopping, today opens its long-awaited, new $40 million library, which is as elegant, clean and ...

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 ...

When we learned libraries were installing video games to draw teens and young adults through their doors, our first thought was that it’s like luring people to church with free beer. Who says that’s a ...

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 ...

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 ...