“And this is only the beginning,” remarked John S. Robling, chair of the National Book Committee cosponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Book Publishers (ABP) about the ...

While it’s never been particularly difficult to lament the decline of reading in American society, the 1950s were a time when literary pessimists found plenty to be concerned about. A Gallup poll in ...

It’s next to impossible to find parking at The National Library of Israel. Located inside the gated Givat Ram campus of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University, it’s one of a collection of seventies-style, boxy ...

As National Library Week begins — it runs from April 9–15 this year — the Library of Congress looks back at the ancestor of the card catalog, in this excerpt from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards, and ...

Millions of books, journals, manuscripts, and images fill the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health. The ...

In a traumatized nation, the library has had to rethink its role and adapt its programming. By Gal Koplewitz reporting from Jerusalem Before Oct. 7, Hana Cooper downloaded everything from daily news ...