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Murdered "Mill Girl" Memorialized At Maine Library

Illustration From: Mary Bean Or The Mysterious Murder by Miss J.A.B., Cincinnati: H.M. Rulison, 1852. Saco, Maine 1850: The partially-clad body of a beautiful, young woman is found, bound to a board,...

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A New Entry in the World’s Most Beautiful Libraries Category: Vennesla...

Welcome to the newly renovated Vennesla Library and Cultural Center in Vennesla, Norway. Norwegian architecture firm Helen & Hard have created a remarkable space by combining an existing community...

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The Kids are Alright: 4th-Graders in Detroit Take Library Matters Into Their...

 Rashard Baker gets some book suggestions from U-M lecturer Melanie Manos outside the closed Richard branch of the Detroit Public Library on Thursday. An outdoor library offered something interesting...

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In The Stacks: The Astor Free Library at the NYPL

This is the latest installment of  In the Stacks. A series dedicated to exploring the digital archives of the leading libraries, institutions and organizations of the known universe. At the prompting...

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Introducing the Library Nurse

A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star “Daniel Lopez is not a librarian, but one of the nation’s first library nurses.” Pima County, Arizona has hired a registered nurse to peruse the stacks and assist many...

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China Cool: The Dalian Public Library

From the facade pictured above to the image below it’s not much of a leap to say this library is one of the coolest looking ones out there. It was the winning design in the Dalian Library Design...

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The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress has an Open House

Main Reading Room – Thomas Jefferson Building – Library of Congress It happens twice a year. The mother of all American libraries, the Library of Congress, opens the doors to its main reading room for...

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Search Lights

Filament Mind is the brilliant installation that graces the new Teton County Library in Wyoming. It is a real-time visual rendering of the “collective curiosities and questions of Wyoming library...

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A Library Without Fiction: The Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy

Imagine a library without fiction. One where everything in it really happened. Introducing The WIKILEAKS Public Library of US Diplomacy (PlusD). Providing users with the world’s largest “searchable...

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In the Stacks: First Visit to The New Digital Library of America

 Books are weapons in the war of ideas. Poster 20 x 27.9 , 1942.  Published by the United States Government Printing Office. In the this installment of In the Stacks we visit the newly launched and...

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