Scaled back so no two books share a page, the library still has 10 to the power of 4,677 books. Deagostini / Getty Images In his 1939 essay, “The Total Library,” the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ...

On a typical day, public libraries would encourage you to stop by and browse its aisles, peruse its books, and maybe even borrow a few favorites from the circulation desk. But these are not typical ...

The World Digital Library: WDL is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress. The project brings together, on a single website, rare and unique ...

If you’re still paying full price for audiobooks while you’re in uniform, you’re probably leaving money on the table. Between public libraries, free apps, and the DoD’s own digital library, you can ...

Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, this is a significant step in furthering access to our collections for anyone who wants to use them. The ...

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...

Is your e-book library a hot mess of random bestsellers, audiobooks, ancient sample chapters and abandoned titles? Deleting old files helps, but consider sorting your content into a Collections or ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata records in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates ...

When Sara Katherine moved back to her hometown of Valparaiso, Indiana, from New York, she noticed a lack of support for LGBTQ youth. So she started volunteering as a mentor at a local nonprofit, ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) in Munich is a central unit of the Max Planck Society that supports scientists from all Max Planck Institutes with a broad portfolio of services in the fields of ...