libraries

Image of the Day: A target of trans-rights activists speaks her piece, and the Toronto Public Library makes good on its commitment to the ‘widest diversity of opinions and perspectives’

The new libraries aren’t just “book temples,” but stunning spaces for designers, robot handlers–and tourists

Books may be under siege, but these odd, charming libraries are taking them to the Earth’s farthest corners

Discovery Centre aims for innovative learning

Canadians apparently. Far from being under siege (except in Toronto), they’re thriving—and experimenting.

Anyone who has read an interview with children’s author/grumpy village atheist Philip Pullman will surely have sensed that he was a bit of an a-hole. He proved the hypothesis, with the cataclysmic decisiveness of a Shaq slam-dunk, in a January 20 address concerning austerity-driven public-library closures in the UK. It is the speech of someone who believes every jot and tittle ever put to paper about his infallible genius; since the chief evidence of this genius is the success of his books in a degraded, semiliterate global publishing marketplace, Pullman naturally spends a lot of time blaming his nation’s library crisis on (a) modern publishing and (b) the market economy. Given such confusion, or perversity, it comes as no surprise that the supreme hero of his plea for untrammelled intellectual freedom turns out to be Karl Marx, who foresaw our sorry state oh so long ago.

The United Kingdom’s libraries are on the chopping block, but incensed Britons are fighting back

In the juggle of priorities on campus, books are falling off the shelf

In the juggle of priorities on campus, books are falling off the shelf

Despite a recent remodeling, Edmonton’s Stanley A. Milner Library has problems

Wins the “Library Oscars”