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The marquee song from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ remains timeless. The LOC is preserving its earliest incarnation.

Tiny bugs are causing huge problems in Hungary.

Paris’s Shakespeare and Company has hosted some 30,000 “Tumbleweeds” passing through town. Want to be the next one?

Fifty years is a long time to keep a library book.

The Warren Public Library waived late fees for a Chicago man who check out a baseball book 50 years ago.

You may not want to be alone in some of these libraries.

Libraries are usually quiet, secluded spots. But not all are as peaceful as they may seem.

Parents and politicians are trying to pull books off shelves at a record-setting pace.

Admont Abbey Library in Admont, Austria is the largest monastic library in the world.

Libraries are a reader’s best friend. In honor of National Library Week, here are 25 things you might not know about these hallowed halls of book worship.

Woolf photographed by George Charles Beresford, 1902; Virginia (left), Vanessa, and two brothers; a Hogarth Press book jacket designed by Vanessa.

Virginia Woolf loved using purple ink—but only for certain kinds of writing.

When the New York Public Library reopened its branches this year, these were the books people checked out.

Two weeks. 50 years. You know, whenever you get around to it.

The poetry collection was taken out in 1971 and finally resurfaced with an anonymous note and a peculiar apology gift.

Stephen Hawking at Cambridge's Emmanuel College in 2013.

After Stephen Hawking’s death, Cambridge University announced plans to house his whole archive. Now, they need someone to help them organize it.

Bob Dylan performs in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1978.

"I am returning with this letter an overdue item (by my count, approximately 17,480 days overdue as of this writing)," Howard Simon wrote.

Clara Barton photographed by Charles R. B. Claflin in 1865.

Who was Clara Barton, really? Transcribing her personal documents can help shed light on a complex question.

A portrait of Marian Anderson taken by Carl Van Vechten in 1940.

Marian Anderson’s singing was unparalleled—and her work to promote civil rights was just as important.

This bird feeder webcam shows a miniature backyard library where the feathered guests get to misbehave.

Burning books may kill coronavirus germs, but at what cost?

The possibility of killing coronavirus germs by nuking a novel is still not a good enough reason to try it.

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison devoted his life to opposing slavery.

The letters shed light on how leading abolitionists were protesting slavery during the Civil War era.

With classrooms and public libraries closed, Virginia's Montgomery County school district has partnered with Google's drone company Wing to deliver books to kids.

Sourdough bread in a bakery in San Francisco, the city that gave the library its very first sourdough starter back in 1989.

Go globetrotting for dozens of sourdough starters in this mouthwatering tour of the Puratos Sourdough Library.

Museums and libraries are offering dozens of printable coloring pages for free.

These museum collection coloring pages are free and available to print at home, so bust out your crayons to beat quarantine-related stress.

You might be stuck in the living room, but it doesn't have to look like it.

From the New York Public Library’s Rose Reading Room to Schitt’s Creek’s Rosebud Motel, there’s really something for everyone here.

A Little Free Library full of canned goods in Chicago.

Now, Little Free Libraries across the map hold everything from peanut butter to toilet paper—and some books, too.

With the Libby app, you can access your local library's collection of e-books and audiobooks for free without leaving home.

The 17th-century Samuel de Champlain map of New France was stolen from the Boston Public Library.

From swords and skeletons to chairs and coins, here’s a roundup of the most unusual items thieves have stolen from libraries.

Lyric Sketch to “Over the Rainbow” and Other “Oz” Artifacts Are Now With the Library of Congress

Hungary’s Oldest Library Races to Rescue Books From Hungry Beetles

8 Amazing Bookstores and Libraries You Can Spend the Night In

Detroit Library Lets Man Keep Book That‘s Five Decades Overdue

6 Supposedly Haunted Libraries

The 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022

25 Amazing Facts About Libraries

5 Things We Learned From the NYPL’s Virginia Woolf Exhibition

The New York Public Library's Most Checked-Out Books of 2021

A Book of Poetry by E.E. Cummings Was Returned to the Library 50 Years Overdue

Cambridge University Is Hiring an Archivist to Catalog 160 Boxes of Stephen Hawking’s Work

It’s All Overdue Now, Baby Blue: Man Returns Bob Dylan Album to Ohio Library 48 Years Late

The Library of Congress Needs Your Help Transcribing Clara Barton's Diaries, Correspondences, and Other Rarely Seen Papers

Explore Marian Anderson’s Handwritten Letters, Private Recordings, and More in a Newly Digitized Collection

No Squawking, Please: A Backyard Bird Library Is the Star of This Livestream

“They Will Catch on Fire”: Michigan Library Asks Patrons Not to Microwave Their Books

The Boston Public Library Needs Help Transcribing Anti-Slavery Letters

Students In Virginia Are Getting Their School Library Books Delivered By Drone

Take a Virtual Tour of Belgium’s Sourdough Library

10 Classy Coloring Pages You Can Print at Home

6 Fun Backgrounds to Use on Your Next Video Call

People Are Stocking Their Little Free Libraries With Food and Toilet Paper to Help Neighbors

This App Lets You Download Free E-Books, Magazines, Comic Books, and Audiobooks From Your Library

18 Surprising Things Stolen From Libraries