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 ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things, a ferocious attack on war and oppression, becomes Bodleian Library’s 12 millionth book An incendiary lost poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, in which the ...

The National Library has invited inmates at four prisons it serves to participate in its Annual Essay and Short Story Competition this year. In a press release, Chief Librarian Gillian Thompson said ...

District central library, Trichy is organizing a Tamil storytelling contest and Tamil essay writing competition as part of 53rd National Library Week Celebrations. Picture used for representational ...