Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

"Libraries and librarians mean a lot to me. They deserve to be celebrated regularly and fervently," columnist Terry Woster ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The atrium at the Shakopee Public Library directs noise from the first floor lobby to the second floor, where windows are not enclosed. (Staff photo by Shannon Fiecke) Normally if you’re in a library ...