Libraries

Author Cressida Cowell has argued that the industry will become "dead in the water" without more support for children's reading, as she reiterated her campaign to make school libraries a statutory requirement.  Read more

This is why the smartest people in the world own tons of books they don't read.

If you love to read as much as I do, walking into a bookstore as an adult feels exactly like walking into a candy store as a kid.  Read more

In an exclusive column for BookBrunch, written in the light of the DCMS report showing sharply falling levels of public engagement with libraries, prominent campaigner Desmond Clarke looks at what has gone wrong with the library service and what can be done to rescue it.

Stop worrying about whether libraries will survive the digital age, the head of the British Library has said, as he argues that they could outlast the internet.

Roly Keating, director of the British Library, said he was shocked at how many "smart people" still questioned whether libraries were still viable in the modern age.  Read more

I often dream I am in a bookstore or in a library. Then I wake up and I am in Queens, the largest of the five boroughs in New York City, the most diverse place imaginable, and where there are currently two Barnes & Noble and one independent book seller and a few places to buy used books. But given the size and density of this borough, this borough truly lacks bookstores.  Read more