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President Joseph R. Biden issued a proclamation today designating October 2022 as National Arts and Humanities Month. In the proclamation, the President...

This week's roundup includes titles by Jonathan Franzen, Kelefa Sanneh, Caitlin Starling and more.

According to three debut novels: A house in the Hamptons, a mentor she can trust, to “be a slut.”.

Internet Archive’s Community Webs program is excited to announce that metadata for more than 4,800 archived websites and web collections created by 23...

Special powers, avian obsession and visions of the future fuel these transporting and entertaining tales.

Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director.

From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Newsletter: The National Archives Catalog is getting an upgrade! We are excited to announce...

From LC: The Giant Bible of Mainz, one of the last handwritten giant bibles in Europe, has now been digitized by the Library of Congress, ensuring online...

CHICAGO — Amy Dickinson and Jillian Rudes have been selected to receive the 2022 Young Adult Services Symposium library worker stipend from the Young Adult...

From a Joint News Release (via National Endowment For the Humanities): President Joseph R. Biden issued a proclamation today designating October 2022 as...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —President Joseph R. Biden issued a proclamation today designating October 2022 as National Arts and Humanities Month. In the proclamation,...

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week,...

LJ’s 2022 Fines and Fees Survey shows a transformed landscape since 2017.

Copyright © 1997 by David Halberstam For years I would walk past it on 79th Street without even knowing that it was a library. It seemed, I suppose, just...

ALA President Lessa Kanani’opua Pelayo-Lozada announces a travel grant for underemployed library workers to attend the Library Learning Experience...

Carin Berkowitz, Ph.D. Cornelia Dayton, Ph.D. Sarah Barringer Gordon, J.D., Ph.D. Doug Greenberg, Ph.D., Chair James Grossman, Ph.D. Kiki Jamieson, Ph.D....

Buckley instead recalled a 1976 visit to the set of Neil Simon’s campy mystery movie, Murder by Death, which featured Capote as homicide victim Lionel Twain....

Hot Key Books has scooped Rhubarb Lemonade from Oskar Kroon, his first novel to be published in English. .

Its use is just another fence, and we’re busting them down.

Events / Programs Services or programs to inform, enrich, and promote community learning. Examples include: exhibits, lecture series, civic engagement...

Enterprise Rent-A-Car and the National Literacy Trust are giving away 25,000 copies of Sir Lenny Henry’s first novel, The Boy With Wings, to Year Five and...

Heather Bender, Native Education Outreach Specialist at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, Dr. Alvin Logan, Jr., Director of Education and Affiliate Curato...

The multichannel Kids Can children’s author returns with 'The Most Magnificent Idea,' a sequel to her 2014 bestseller 'The Most Magnificent Thing.'.

Arizona tribune. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1958-197?, January 15, 1960, Page page 9, Image 9, brought to you by Arizona State Library, Archives and Public...

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments.

Our guest critic, a dead ringer for the elf who went to Halloween, weighs in on a trio of ghoulish treats.

WYPR is a public radio station serving the Baltimore, Maryland metropolitan area.

LaFramboise, who served as chief book buyer at the Washington, D.C., independent bookstore for more than a decade, has died at age 60.

The New York Times Best Sellers are up-to-date and authoritative lists of the most popular books in the United States, based on sales in the past week,...

CHICAGO — The American Library Association is proud to announce Critical Cultural Information Studies, a new book series edited by Dr. Nicole A. Cooke,...

Shortlists are announced for the 2022 Diverse Book Awards and Kindle Storyteller Award. Author interviews are plentiful this week, including conversations...

Founded in England in 1992 by two women who were determined to publish the kinds of colorful, diverse books that they wanted their own young children to...

Goodreads has shared a list of 60 of the most popular horror books, according to how many users have shelved them and their average rating.

The HarperCollins Union has filed an unfair labor practice charge against HarperCollins with the National Labor Relations Board.

Grantee Spotlight: A Q A with StrongHER TogetHER September 2022 Grantee Spotlight: A Q A with StrongHER TogetHER The mission of the organization is...

Beginning November 1, Hachette Book Group will require office-based employees to come into their office on two fixed days a week.

Amalia Ortíz: I'm proud to say that all of the work that our theater produces is all written by the students. So I'm very much a facilitator, asking...

The Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education program supports the exploration and development of small projects that would benefit underserved populations...

The long-shot cases, first filed in early 2021, had alleged a conspiracy between Amazon and the Big Five publishers to eliminate price competition in the...

Jemima Boone Life on the Frontier 1762-1834 Jemima Boone, the fourth child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was born in North Carolina, on October 4,...

Bringing the Smithsonian to local communities in Massachusetts.

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How can stories from the past inspire today’s activist storytelling? At What Cheer Writers Club's Inside the Archives: The Art of Then, learn how to access s...

This talk explores the concept of the digital back door in health care, “technological processes and tools used in health care, such as racially biased...

All Stories has selected a second cohort of mentees for its free initiative for underrepresented writers, with this year’s 10 authors all writing for either...

Marian Keyes, Richard Osman and Zakiya Dalila Harris are among authors to be shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Award,...

Farshore has netted an adapted version of Elizabeth Day’s Failosophy (Fourth Estate) for teenagers. .

Guardian Faber has unveiled the details of a far-reaching campaign to promote Guardian journalist Marina Hyde’s What Just Happened?! Dispatches from...

This lesson introduces students to the Aztec Empire and people and to the legend of their founding of Tenochtitlan, the city that later became the capital of...

Kalbinder Dayal, Rachel Dench, Abilasha Ramanan and Camille Boxhill have been named as the four winners of the Space to Write Project.