Last year two Danish librarians – Christian Lauersen and Marie Eiriksson – founded Library Planet: a worldwide, crowdsourced, online library travel guide. According to them, Library Planet is meant to ...

The Cedar Rapids Public Library is holding an essay contest in anticipation of the new library groundbreaking celebration on May 5. The essay contest, entitled “Love my Library” is open to all 6 – 12 ...

What I have is a phantom library: the memory of the books that would now belong to me if I’d kept them. Writing about my library is, therefore, an archaeological exercise based on traces and memories ...

The Student Library Essay Contest was established 16 years ago by the Friends of the San Diego Public Library and San Diego Unified School District Librarians. The contest takes place at local branch ...

Ramona High School junior Joel Mitchell is among winners in the Library Friends of San Diego County’s annual countywide essay contest. Mitchell earned second place in the contest’s teen division, ...

Littleton residents of all ages had the chance to say why they love libraries and detail their favorite library memories as part of the Reuben Hoar Library's "Love Your Library" essay contest. The ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many ...

Aspiring authors of all ages can sign up to win big through writing at San Diego County Library branches. This annual essay contest is sponsored by The Library Friends of San Diego County, and gives ...