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Transparency: The Most Controversial Books in America
Every year, libraries are asked to remove books from their shelves, because they are found to be inappropriate. These "challenges" can occur...
Culture
Occupy Your Sidewalk With A Micro-Library
Across the country, guerrilla librarians are creating community-curated book lending systems.
Education
The Year in Education: Seven Innovations Changing the Way the World Learns
From gaming to teacher leadership, 2011 brought plenty of classroom innovation that promises to make us smarter.
Education
What's the Most Literate City in America?
Seattle's lost the Most Literate City in America crown. Is the rest of America losing the literacy battle?
Culture
Protesters Are Awesome: Egyptian Students Are Now Protecting the Libraries
Egypt's protesting millennials are multitasking: Saving the nation's precious cultural icons while simultaneously calling for a new government.
Education
Why the Most Literate Cities in America Aren't the Wealthiest
Money can't buy literacy.
Culture
Library's "Living Books" Program Will Loan Human Experts
At the new library in Surrey, British Columbia, people can "check out" experts on a topic of interest.
News
'Books Are Speech': Why the OWS Library's Destruction Is So Upsetting
For Occupy Wall Street supporters, crushing a library felt like crushing the collective imagination.
Culture
How To: Save Your Local Library
With recent cuts in city and state funding, libraries are an increasingly endangered species. From Charlotte to Los Angeles (and lots of places...
Culture
Libraries Lend More DVDs than Netflix Rents
The Online Computer Library Center says people get more DVDs from libraries than from Netflix. The Consumerist
Education
That Plan to Close Half of Detroit's Schools? It's Really Happening
Paging Eminem: Michigan just approved the insane plan to shut schools and raise class sizes in the Motor City to 60 students.
Education
Books From Bankrupt Borders Will Help Public School Students
The company hired to liquidate Borders is donating more than 8,000 academic-quality texts to Chicago's schools.
Education
Boosting Literacy Through America's Littlest Library Branch
The public library in Clinton, New York upcycled a classic British phone booth and turned it into a neighborhood branch.
Education
Cheers: Room to Read Builds Its 10,000th Library
We've been fans of Room to Read, the nonprofit founded by John Wood to build libraries in the developing world, for a long time. In the following...
Education
Are Digital Media Labs the Libraries of the Future?
Could a digital media lab in downtown Chicago be the library of the future?
Education
When Renovating a Library Means Ditching the Books
A Massachusetts school's experiment in taking its library digital has been a rousing success
Education
'Where Do You Call Home?' For These Kids, It's the Library
They'll remind you why you love the library, too.
News
Six Things You Need to Know About Yesterday's Los Angeles Election
Yesterday, L.A. voters (or a small percentage of them) decided whether the city should tax pot to fund parks, among other things. Here's a recap.
