The convergence of women’s history and library history at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition heralded the beginnings of a tradition of advocacy that would shape our profession for the next 100 ...

The British Library of Political and Economic Science was founded in 1896, a year after the London School of Economics and Political Science. Arriving at a time when the social, legal and economic ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

The opening episode of Carl Sagan’s TV series Cosmos, first shown in 1980, lamented the most famous burning of books in history—the conflagration that destroyed the Library of Alexandria. “If I could ...

While held at gunpoint, activist and librarian E.J. Josey learned an important lesson: how to never back down from racism. He was drafted into the Army in May 1943 and was trying to board a bus when ...

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When the Sunnyslope neighborhood's first library opened, patrons would visit to check out bathroom scales and listen to the radio. Today, library patrons can take online classes, grab an afternoon ...