The last week of September is Banned Books Week, when the American Library Association calls our attention to works that have been censored.

Can anything be done to make meetings more useful and less dull?

Bernie Sanders’s February 2003: “On My Mind: The Patriot Act’s Threat to Libraries” published in American Libraries.

Carla Hayden has a history of social justice work in public libraries.

The wacky life story of the astronomer, author, children's book publisher, and anthropologist who restored an old barge on the Gowanus Canal in 1937.

Juan Felipe Herrera is the new U.S. Poet Laureate. It is a position that has had a long life, dating back to the Greeks.

The Manhattan Project needed an instant library in Los Alamos built from scratch and in secrecy—this is how it was done.

The modern Internet of Things and E.M. Forster's short story, "The Machine Stops"