Chicago – It’s not often that a librarian is warned to stay away from the bookshelves because of high voltage and that students aren’t allowed to roam freely through the stacks – but things are ...

The stacks of Sterling Library are magical, and we are delighted to see that Justin Zaremby ’04 shares that feeling (“The other sordid story of Stacks,” 10/22). The ability to find and examine primary ...

Libraries often evoke nostalgia. Whether it’s the reminder of our first library cards, meandering the aisles on a rainy weekend day or pulling an all-nighter during college, many of us have fond ...

The Alderman Library was the reason Geeta Patel came to the University of Virginia. Alderman is the university’s main library, and its open stacks were what attracted Patel, an associate professor ...

There was a terrific post a little while ago on ACRLog (cross posted at Library Hat) by Bohyun Kim about what it is that appeals to us about being in the stacks of a library. She suspects that the ...

Art Miller turned to the five freshmen and one graduate student assembled before him in the lobby of Firestone Library. "This place is huge," he said soberly, "and it can be confusing, but we have a ...

Enter the glorious Rose Reading Room on the third floor of the New York Public Library on a weekday afternoon, and you'll find almost every chair filled. Scholars and researchers still submit their ...

In three days, the New York Public Library is holding a public meeting to discuss the renovation of the main branch at Bryant Park at 42nd Street and the Mid-Manhattan Library. Last year, following ...

A look at the University of Illinois' Undergraduate Library, Main Library and a tour of the Main Stacks collection, which holds approximately 5 million volumes. Karl McDermott, an economics professor ...