NYC's Best Libraries
One week from today, the winners of the NYC Neighborhood Library Awards will be announced. Two of the judges, Jacqueline Woodson, who won a 2014 National Book Award for her young adult memoir Brown...
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#Bookface Brings Book Cover Art into the Real World
Libraries aren't just palaces of dead trees anymore. Lots of libraries and librarians have embraced technology and social media. And one library-centric hashtag has caught on in the wider book-loving...
View ArticleChecking The Books
Two newspapers' quests to count every person killed by police in 2015, how librarians shaped the original debate over the Patriot Act, and more.
View ArticleLibrarians Vs. The Patriot Act
Once called the "library provision," Section 215 of the Patriot Act forced libraries to become headliners in the battle waged to protect American freedoms. Producer Karen Duffin tells the origin story...
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Column: Do we need librarians now that we have the internet?
For better or worse, the digital age forces experts to make the case that a Google search doesn’t replace the librarian, and WebMD doesn’t replace the doctor, writes Robert Graboyes of the Mercatus...
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Column: Can librarians help solve the fake news problem?
Students study at a library table. Image by Blend Images/ Dave and Les Jacobs/ Getty ImagesImagine, for a moment, the technology of 2017 had existed on Jan. 11, 1964 – the day Luther Terry, surgeon...
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Rebecca B. Rankin: Early Advocate for Public Access to Government Information
Rebecca B. Rankin was the Director of the Municipal Reference Library for the City of New York. Her work included the promotion of resources and services of the library to its clients. When budget cuts...
View ArticleAmerican Alexandria: Susan Orlean on the Great LA Library Fire
As a staff-writer at the New Yorker, Susan Orlean has embedded with fertility shamans in Bhutan and profiled a dog (a boxer named Biff). Her book The Orchid Thief inspired one of the most successful...
View Article105 - The Keepers: The Unrelenting Oral Histories of Eddie McCoy
After a devastating car accident that made his work as a janitor impossible, civil rights activist Eddie McCoy, picked up a scavenged tape recorder and began taping anyone and everyone in his town—from...
View ArticleEmilio Estevez Is Making Great Films, Doesn't Do Breakfast Club Reunions
By the time Emilio Estevez was 23, he'd starred in The Outsiders, Repo Man, The Breakfast Club, and St. Elmo’s Fire. As the son of Martin Sheen, he was Hollywood royalty, and as a member of the "brat...
View Article108 - The Dark Side of the Dewey Decimal System
Melvil Dewey, the father of library science and the inventor of the most popular library classification system in the world, was a known racist and serial sexual harasser. Forced out of the American...
View Article138 - The Keepers - Archive Fever, with host Frances McDormand
The Keepers, from The Kitchen Sisters and PRX with host, Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand. Stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians....
View ArticleGov. Kathy Hochul; Student Loan Relief; Polio Returns; School Librarians on...
On today's show:Governor Kathy Hochul joins to talk about her first year in office, and more.Joe Biden announced that the White House will cancel up to $20,000 in student loans for some Americans....
View ArticleReport Card: Librarians and Book Bans
All week, The Brian Lehrer Show is taking calls from educators about the challenges they are anticipating ahead of the school year. Today, librarians call in to share how controversial books are being...
View ArticleInfinite Scroll
Across the county, librarians are fighting to keep libraries open and books on the shelves. On this week’s show, hear what the American Library Association is doing to stand up to unprecedented...
View ArticleTrump’s Second Defamation Trial; Library Funding; Avoiding the 'Urban Doom...
On today's show:Writer E. Jean Carroll is taking former President Donald Trump back to court, this time focusing on what damages, if any, Trump must pay Carroll for defaming her. Andrea Bernstein,...
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