The history behind this year's library and bookstore winners

More than 150 years ago, a circulating or subscription library opened in Lansing's Old Town at what is now 200-202 E. Cesar Chavez Ave.

James Patterson gives bonuses to library workers & booksellers in ...

In celebration of the release of his latest nonfiction title, "The Secret Lives of Booksellers & Librarians" world's bestselling author ...

National Library Week | ALA

National Library Week 2023, April 23-29, will be celebrated with the theme "There's More to the Story." Monday, April 24: State of America's Libraries ...

ALA Unveils the 2024 Youth Media Award Winners - I Love Libraries

Award Winner: Houses with a Story: A Dragon's Den, a Ghostly Mansion, a Library of Lost Books, and 30 More Amazing Places to Explore, published ...

Censorship Throughout the Centuries | American Libraries Magazine

In response, a patron of the Carnegie Public Library in Bryan, Texas, confronted a librarian after finding Consumer Reports on the library's ...

About - Banned Books Week

Banned Books Week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools.

Caldecott and Newbery Medal Wins Bring Instant Boost to Book Sales

The library and online markets and traditional book retailers respond first, Mendelson says, followed by nontraditional segments such as the ...

Fascinating Facts | About the Library - Library of Congress

This vast collection also includes historical foreign telephone books and city directories. Comic Books and Newspapers. The Library's Serial and Government ...

Author Events | St. Louis County Library

Louis County Library Foundation brings bestselling and award-winning authors from a variety of ... Professor Emeritus of History at the University of ...

2024-Bancroft-Winners - Columbia University Libraries

In all, 228 books were submitted for consideration for the 2024 prize. Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at the ...

Browse Books | St. Louis Public Library

Books On Order Arts & Entertainment Biography & Memoir Business Religion and Philosophy Social Sciences Language and Linguistics ...

Innovations in Reading Prize - National Book Foundation

... year, with a prize of $1,000 awarded to each. This year's recipients are Bookleggers Library and Libros Para el Viaje, a project of Casa Camino Real bookstore.

The New York Public Library To Launch Nationwide “Books For All

... Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson in conversation on the careful work of communal archives and the power of Black stories amidst continued book banning.

Author Evan Friss Discusses "The Bookshop A History of ... - YouTube

... of the Ashland Public Library ... Year History of Cycling in New York City. He lives with his wife (a ...

The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore

Only about half of Americans read even one book a year. What would ... library archives, oral histories, books, journals, newspapers ...

'The Bookshop,' by Evan Friss, a lively history of American bookstores

Within five years, three thousand of them closed.” Some independent ... Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for The Washington ...

The Enemies of Literature Are Winning - The New York Times

Walk past any bookstore or library in America this week, and you are likely to find a sign exhorting you to “Read a banned book.”.

The History of Little Free Library

Little Free Library's Impact Library Program also launched that year, granting no-cost libraries full of books to high-need communities. On October 18, 2018 ...

All Awards Guidelines | Library Journal

Learn more and submit your nominations. Submission deadline: July 31, 2024. (See Past Winners). Marketer of the Year. Library Journal will honor one library ...

Library of Congress Centers for the Book Choose 'Great Reads ...

The 56 affiliated Centers for the Book of the Library of Congress have chosen books, called Great Reads, that will be recognized at the 2024 Library of ...