The loss of the ancient world's greatest repository of knowledge has been mourned for centuries—but Julius Caesar may not ...

A whole library’s worth of papyri owned by Julius Caesar’s father-in-law were turned to charcoal by the eruption of Vesuvius.

The staff of the John G. McCullough Free Library had a literal mystery on their hands after an unknown patron dropped off a ...

A girl from southern China accidentally left her diary notebook at a tourist hotspot in New Zealand, only for it to become an unofficial guestbook for people from around the world to sign.

GREENE COUNTY, Mo. — The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library District Fall Book Sale opens to the public starting Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 10 a.m. The Springfield-Greene County Library ...

The Lisbon Mahzor has been reunited with its remaining third at the National Library of Israel. A rare 15th-century Portuguese Jewish manuscript, long incomplete after it was split into three parts, ...

The Friends of the Library in Athens will host a book sale from Sept. 24 to 27 at the Athens-Clarke County Library, offering readers a chance to snag great titles while supporting the library’s ...

Pulitzer Prize finalist and translator Arthur Sze, 74, is the nation’s newest poet laureate, the Library of Congress announced Monday. “His poetry is distinctly American in its focus on the landscapes ...

The school year is back in full swing for students and educators, and under a new law, every district is required to establish policies to ensure school libraries have a process in place for handling ...

At a time when its leadership is in question and its mission challenged, the Library of Congress has named a new U.S. poet laureate, the much-honored author and translator Arthur Sze. The library ...

Find the perfect book to curl up with this fall and winter at the Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale in Springfield this month. Most books and audiovisuals are $1 or less; better books are priced ...