"Rebecca" was checked out in 1973 from the Enderlin, N.D. Library and found its way home at an advantageous time.

The expansive archive is now open to any New Yorker with a library card.

The new decision from U.S. District Judge Stephen Locher once again temporarily blocks a part of the law that bars school ...

The project, California’s Bookshelf, can be accessed via The Palace Project app. Patrons have access to 70,000 unique titles ...

The opening of the Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne archives in the New York Public Library reveals unseen ... “in order to write other kinds of books without feeling like an interloper.” ...

The eighth president, Martin Van Buren, continued the trend of extravagant presidential pets. He was given a pair of pet ...

I was raised in the old country, back in the old house where all my siblings had grown up long before I was born. It was a family house but lacked all the familiarity, for none of us ever felt ...

Steven Spielberg's 1981 masterpiece, Raiders of the Lost Ark, has an unforgettable final scene. The workman wheels the Ark of ...

Every December, my reading group chooses a book related to 1971. In 2015, for example, we read A. Qayyum Khan’s Bittersweet Victory: A Freedom Fighter’s Tale (2013) and a few years earlier we ...

This collection of interactive exercises uses Times resources to help young people find the news that matters to them, understand how it’s made, connect it to their lives — and make media of ...

Far from your average book depository, libraries are meant to be guardians of our collective history, culture and knowledge.

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