When that controversial Brutalist structure is your family’s neighborhood library

Living downtown, it…

In Search of the Long Wow

What happened to the e-reading revolution that would shape the way we think…

Discovering Leela Naidu in a Library

I was in the round room of the State Central Library in Bangalore, walking along a semi…

Save Chennai Libraries

3500 books (old and new) collected for Ashok Nagar District Central Library. In 2 months. No structured organization but just a group of twitter friends. And weekend volunteers. How did we do it?

5 Alternative ways to get scholarly material that don’t involve the library

I always been fortunate to be associated with a institute with a good academic library so I haven’t really kept up with illegal or semi-illegal ways of getting access.

Library Books’ Ambition

As the work days amass, new stresses arise, new pressures present themselves through the hazy cloud of being. Time, once seeming so abundant and free, is now but a distant memory; the days eaten away. What’s left is a daze of thoughts, dreams and desires, with ambition looming overhead…

The English Section: Middlesex

The most wonderful and difficult thing about Middlesex is how much it covers. It’s about gender. It’s…

Library Offers Homeless People Mental Health Services, And It’s Working

By Eleanor Goldberg

Of the 5,000 people who visit the San Francisco Public Library every day, about 15 percent of them are homeless, PBS reported. After years of watching this…

How to Write a JavaScript Library

There are so many reasons to open source your code. But knowing how to do it can be a real challenge.

“I am not a librarian at all”

Eduard A. ten Houten works as a librarian at the University of Amsterdam…