BBAU scholars’ library management design gets patent

Lucknow: Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) researchers received patent on design of an intelligent book sorting ...
BBC

The man who builds up private libraries - book by rare book

Where do the impeccably selected libraries that appear in society pages and design magazines come from? Many are the work of private library curators - who scour the world to find the books that will ...
BBC

Shelf Love: Several Fascinating Facts About Libraries

Libraries. The structures that Voltaire could have once described as ‘like a big sort of Lidl but with loads of books in it’. We enter them, we briefly visit the ‘Adult Themes’ section and then we ...
CNN

Nairobi’s new chapter: These women are restoring and reclaiming Kenya’s dilapidated, colonial-era libraries

Libraries in Nairobi, Kenya, are getting a makeover thanks to two women who are hoping to turn the page on the past – creating a new future both for the books inside the libraries and the communities ...
The Gazette

Iowa libraries left in a lurch after closure of major book supplier

Patron Services Specialist Elysha Holley racks books on a cart in the sorting room at the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s Ladd Library in southwest Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. The library, like many ...
The Financial Times

Forgotten to return your library book? Don’t worry about it

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tomatoes for Everyone was handed back to Orkney Library on October 6, almost half a century late. Elsewhere, ...
BBC

Libraries: Almost one million NI books not back on time

Almost one million library books were not left back on time in Northern Ireland last year, new figures obtained by BBC News NI can reveal. Fines for overdue library books in Northern Ireland were ...
Aberdeen City Council

Library book pick ups

Library members are able to pre-order items for collection from any Aberdeen City Library. You can order a wide range of books for you and your family using the online booking form: Alternatively ...
Newsweek

‘Hope There Is No Late Fee’: Book Returned to Library 82 Years Late

A library book checked out in July 1943 has finally made its way back to the San Antonio Public Library (SAPL) in Texas after 82 years overdue. Your Child, His Family, and Friends by Frances Bruce ...