In three days, the New York Public Library is holding a public meeting to discuss the renovation of the main branch at Bryant Park at 42nd Street and the Mid-Manhattan Library. Last year, following ...

Indicator Main Reading Room and New York Public Library Central Building Stacks. Source: NYPL Digital Collections The New York Public Library recently announced that it is rethinking its controversial ...

There was a terrific post a little while ago on ACRLog (cross posted at Library Hat) by Bohyun Kim about what it is that appeals to us about being in the stacks of a library. She suspects that the ...

The following article is an op-ed by Susan Bernofsky, chair of the PEN translation committee, originally published on her blog Translationista. Yesterday I was invited to tour the stacks at the 42nd ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chicago – It’s not often that a librarian is warned to stay away from the bookshelves because of high voltage and that students aren’t allowed to roam freely ...

In an effort to modernize the Free Library of Philadelphia’s main building into a more accessible public destination, architect Moshe Safdie envisioned a design to nearly double the amount of space ...