In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Kinsey Marable was working as a banker at Goldman Sachs, spending a week out of every month in London. “Walking around there, I found out-of-print-book shops, a ...

Richard Schlesinger peruses the volumes of a custom-designed library: If you judge your books' covers to be just a bit blah, then Thatcher Wine can change everything. He is to a library what a tailor ...

Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter has found a fittingly poetic way to give back to his hometown: He’s auctioning off a case full of custom library cards to raise funds for the Brooklyn Public Library. The ...

A chair design originally created for the New York Public Library has taken on a new life as a signature part of another historic library’s redesign and refresh project in Connecticut. Founded in 1891 ...

The Haley Book Bike with display shelves folded out. The number of libraries with bicycle-based outreach programs has grown steadily in recent years, in part because these programs can make a big ...