Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress purchased a huge collection of books belonging to former President Thomas Jefferson, it remains one of America’s greatest literary treasures and has become ...

Episode 4: Enlightenment and Science - How Jefferson's reading of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton taught him the science must put to pragmatic political use.

From tape measures to telescopes and air fryers, Jefferson Parish library cardholders in temporary need of everyday objects soon can turn for help not just to their friends and neighbors, but also to ...

The Library of Congress has managed to re-create —with the help of rare-book collectors —-the missing two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's Library. Mark Dimunation, of the Library of Congress, discusses ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I was sitting at a table in the reading room of the rare book division of ...

PORT HADLOCK — Along with moving into a renovated building, the Jefferson County Library is in line for new leadership: Library Director Ray Serebrin is retiring and will be replaced by Associate ...

This post is the first in a six-part series commemorating libraries and librarians 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. Librarian Marylyn Haddican wrote the American Library Association (ALA) a letter in ...

The Jefferson Parish Library won't reshelve or remove 12 books that feature discussions of sexuality and gender and were the subject of a coordinated barrage of complaints. In letters sent on April 18 ...