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 ...

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 ...

Carol Moss Kirkwood does not have a favorite librarian joke. Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor? Her eyebrows rise slightly, preparing for the impact of an awful punch line.

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 ...

Cottage Street in Easthampton is a busy street on any night, and this New Year’s Eve is no different. I approach The Library’s front door and am warned by its words that I must be properly dressed to ...

The atrium at the Shakopee Public Library directs noise from the first floor lobby to the second floor, where windows are not enclosed. (Staff photo by Shannon Fiecke) Normally if you’re in a library ...

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 ...