Best non-resident library cards for Overdrive access
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Internet Archive has created a National Emergency Library, allowing users access to all 1.4 million books in their collection with no waiting lists
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"Pyke notte thy nostrellys." A 15th-century guide on children's manners has been digitized for first time
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People go to the library twice as often as they go to the movies
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The New York Public Library has calculated its most checked-out books of all time
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Kalamazoo school district decides not to have LGBTQ books in reading program
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E-books at libraries are a huge hit, leading to long waits, reader hacks and worried publishers
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Helsinki Library has robots to help reshelve books – they get a lot of press attention but they're not the important part of the library
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Karl Ove Knausgård is to become the sixth contributor to the Future Library, which collects works by contemporary authors that will remain unread until 2114
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Literature locked up: How prison book restriction policies constitute the nation’s largest book ban
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Libraries and archivists are scanning and uploading books that are secretly in the public domain
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Harry Potter books removed from St. Edward Catholic School due to 'curses and spells'
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Twice a year this floating library delivers thousands of books to the remote islands of Stockholm's archipelago
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Rebuilding Jane Austen’s library
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Future Library is one of the most interesting projects happening in Europe right now that connects literature, art and the environment
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Prisons are banning books that teach prisoners how to code
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For remote communities in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, mobile libraries are a lifeline
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Christopher Columbus' son had an enormous library. Its catalog was just found
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James Patterson donates $1.25 million to classroom libraries
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How the New York Public Library fills its shelves (and why some books don't make the cut)
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The Autarky (Self-Sustainability) Library
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'She means thirty books per room, right?' Bibliophiles voice their horror over claims tidying guru Marie Kondo tells people to severely restrict the reading material they keep in their home.
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Near the end of the Middle Ages a device came into service that helped avid readers: the book carousel or book wheel
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A personal library too big to get through in a lifetime “isn’t a sign of failure or ignorance,” but rather “a badge of honor.”
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British Library acquires the St Cuthbert Gospel – the earliest intact European book
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$12 million gift opens new chapter for New York Public Library’s treasures
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Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell on why we need libraries – an essay in pictures
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The quest to find William Shakespeare's library
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The grand old tradition of gaming at the library
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Why I love my library and you should too
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The bookmobiles: Vintage photos of traveling libraries, 1910s-1960s
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This Buddhist Foundation prints and distributes Dharma books free of charge. If you know someone (or a library!) who would enjoy access to those books, feel free to take a look at the website.
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Bats act as pest control at the library of the Palace of Mafra in Portugal
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Forbes deleted a deeply misinformed op-ed arguing Amazon should replace libraries
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US Federal prisons abruptly cancel policy that made it harder, costlier for inmates to get books
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