Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...
CORRECTION: A photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about Barbara Heritage’s job. She is the director of collections, exhibitions and scholarly initiatives at ...
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Petersen Elementary is one of the oldest schools in the Houston Independent School District and the school library's books are old, too. ABC13 found one book on presidential ...
The library announced on Facebook that their long-lost book had been returned to their collection after a Boston resident found it and gave it to the Cambridge Public Library. The book was "The Early ...
HAMPDEN, Maine (WABI) - “I just saw a lot of beauty in the covers,” explained Larry Clifford. Judging a book by its cover. Larry repurposes old books by turning them into what he calls Biblioquilts.
The book covers look like well-worn paperbacks you’d find on a spinner rack in a secondhand shop, but these aren’t actual novels. The creased and worn covers for films like “A Quiet Place,” “Do the ...
As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...