Libraries

Makerspaces are sprouting up in public libraries across the country. The best ones teem with powerful computers, 3D printers, high-speed Internet hookups, and other tools for techies, business people and creators like artists. Library makerspaces in cities such...

Whether as a solution to book stacking problems or as a last tribute to/new use for the great legacy of printed literature, book igloos are one of the most eye-catching and...

Publishers drop authors whose books don’t sell. Nothing new there. But now Kelly Gallagher, VP of Content Acquisition for Ingram Content Group, has shared some of the math he’s using. Here’s...

One of my favourite ways to browse for books is through the public library. My library subscribes to the Overdrive service. I love that I can see new releases, put them...

As already reported in TeleRead, the original text of the diary of Anne Frank is the subject of a legal tussle this year over public domain rights. With the diary text...

The Netherlands has thrown up one of the more inspiring pieces of modern library design in the shape of Bibliotheek DOK (Library Concept Center) in Vermeer's old home city of Delft. According to...

I had not been aware of this until a LiveJournal post from Steve Miller brought this to my attention, but after checking around (and being pointed to a link by...

As few geeks will need telling, Minecraft is the virtual world's answer to Lego, allowing users to build online (and often cooperatively) just about anything they can imagine. And as you...

America's favorite ebook and audiobook distributor OverDrive has announced its 2016 Digital Library Trends report ahead of its airing at the 2016 Public Library Association (PLA) Conference. And OverDrive predicts that: "public libraries'...

Digital Book World has just shared an interview with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the Digital Public Library of America (DLPA), about the Open eBooks initiative, already covered in TeleRead. There,...