Countless histories can be found on library shelves, including histories of libraries themselves. Reading library history can help us not only avoid repeating history but also better understand how ...

In March of 2008, the Joanne E. Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Family Technology Center, and Orradre Library (colloquially known as the Learning Commons, and/or University Library) opened its ...

It would be hard to imagine growing up without a public library. No matter if you are in a large city or a small town, the public library has always been a place to discover new worlds. Within the ...

Autherine Lucy and lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Arthur Brooks leave the courthouse in Birmingham, Alabama, on February 29, 1956, after the court had ruled Lucy had to be reinstated as a library ...

Milwaukee Public Library’s Central Library branch opened in 1898, designed by local architects as a home to both the Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Public Museum. Central Library was ...

On this day in history, April 24, 1800, President John Adams — the second president of the United States — approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of "such books as may be necessary for ...

Is this *** beautiful library building or what? This is the Hopkinton library located in the village part of Hopkinton used to be the Houston Dairy Farm. 62 acres of high meadowland with *** scenic ...