There was a terrific post a little while ago on ACRLog (cross posted at Library Hat) by Bohyun Kim about what it is that appeals to us about being in the stacks of a library. She suspects that the ...

AI Chatbots Need More Books to Learn From. These Libraries Are Opening Their Stacks CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Everything ever said on the internet was just the start of teaching artificial intelligence about humanity. Tech companies are now tapping into an older repository of knowledge ...

Art Miller turned to the five freshmen and one graduate student assembled before him in the lobby of Firestone Library. "This place is huge," he said soberly, "and it can be confusing, but we have a ...

Almost before I pushed “publish” last week, the Library Loon responded to my gushy love letter to the stacks with an essay of his or her pseudonymous own, titled “On Hating the Stacks.” It’s a bracing ...

Enter the glorious Rose Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library on a weekday afternoon, and you'll find almost every chair filled. Scholars and researchers still submit their ...

Stacks the Library Cat, who gained national attention as a mouser and greeter at the Litchfield Public Library, died on May 10, officials said Monday. A rescue from Adopt-A-Pet in Benld, Stacks had ...

Critics of the New York Public Library's $300 million renovation plan have doubted whether its most important engineering challenge is even possible: the removal of seven levels of century-old book ...