There’s nothing quite as comforting as cosying up in a corner with a novel on a Sunday morning as a light breeze blows from the AC. Summer is literally perfect for it, and in Dubai, you’re spoiled for ...

Items from special collections, such as the Reserve Collection, the Media Collection and the Curriculum Collection have different loan periods. Please inquire at the Circulation Desk for more ...

Want to take a deep dive into American history? Every U.S. president since Herbert Hoover (and a few before) has a library dedicated to his life and time in office. These presidential libraries are ...

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

The library was among the first academic departments formed in 1891 to establish the Drexel Institute of Arts, Science and Industry — later to become Drexel University. Today, the University has ...

There are dozens of Z-Library clones out there, and most of them have a nasty habit of stealing users’ info. There is currently only one official domain name they are using going forward. In a ...

Disclaimer: LibGen contains errors. You may, for example, find books that list incorrect authors. This search tool is meant to reflect material that could be used to train AI programs, and that ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

When we took a look at the nation’s declining reading habits, our struggling bookstores and the prodigious number of books consumed by America’s top 1 percent of readers, scores of you wrote in with a ...

The term ad-lib comes from the Latin ad libitum, or “at one’s pleasure.” It refers to the spontaneous creation or alteration of dialogue, actions, or moments by actors during a performance. Ad-libbing ...

More than 180 council-run libraries have either closed or been handed over to volunteer groups in the UK since 2016, BBC analysis has found. More deprived communities were four times more likely to ...