Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

I know I seek quiet more than the average person, so I try to rein it in. I only shush people at the movie theater once the movie starts, not during previews. At lectures, I don't turn and glare at ...

Sometime in the ’80s, I sat at a table in the town library in Lenox, Mass., doing my eighth-grade algebra homework. A man, probably about the age I am now, appeared in front of me. He wore a ...

Most of us prefer a bit of peace and quiet if we want to do some serious reading but the folks at the Wellcome Library won't be getting much of that since a £17.5m programme of building works kicked ...

The city of Neiman Marcus and Tiffany now has a library to match. Walnut Creek, long a hub of upscale shopping, today opens its long-awaited, new $40 million library, which is as elegant, clean and ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- With its rooftop garden, sewing machines, 3-D printers, power tools and video game consoles, the new library in downtown Arlington looks nothing like a library of the past. “The ...