Libraries
Francis Bear at the Library
Francis Bear and his stuffed animal pals learn how to get the most out of the library.
Why Librarians Are Defending Your Right to Watch Porn at the Library
It's about a lot more than porn.
These Adorable Library Robots Can Recite Poetry
They’re literate and like to dance. I kind of want to date one?
Brewster Kahle, the Librarian of 404 Billion Websites
Kahle is an engineer-turned-digital librarian who founded the Internet Archive in 1996.
The New York Public Library Releases 20,000 Beautiful High-Resolution Maps
A crop of public domain maps for the public to peruse and lay over contemporary maps.
A Torrent Site Wants to Be the New Academic Library
As the UK makes more journals freely available to library users, a couple of US researchers have a more modern approach to sharing data.
Finding Herpes and Cocaine in the Antwerp Public Library
Scientists at the Catholic University of Leuven tested ten of the most popular books at the Antwerp library for microbes and bacteria. They found something unexpected.
Testing Seattle's Porn-Friendly Public Libraries
I love libraries, and I love porn, but those two interests have rarely overlapped. Now that librarians at my local branch have taken a firm stance in favor of public-porn watching, I decided to take a day off and check out some hot, raw...
Is Texas's All-Digital Library Really the Future of Books?
What would Macaulay Culkin's character in "The Pagemaster" say about this?