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Topic: Libraries

Special Collections at the Boston Public Library (Lucie Faulknor)

The case for saving America's libraries

Melanie McFarland
Singer Dolly Parton reads her book, "The Coat of Many Colors" to schoolchildren at The Library of Congress on February 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Shannon Finney/Getty Images)

How Dolly Parton is championing literacy

Nardos Haile
Drag Queens Kelly K, left, and Scalene OnixXx read story book on the last Drag Queen story hour at Canyon Crest Town Centre location of Cellar Door Bookstore on Saturday, April 29, 2023 in Riverside, CA. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Drag queens don't traumatize my kids

Katryn Bury
Fork stuck in a tiny book (Getty Images/jasmina buinac)

Become a better cook, go to the library

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Americans can't keep nice things

Chauncey DeVega
Books on shelves in the stacks at the Reading Public Library. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Authors enter the library e-book fight

Alison Stine
Display of banned books or censored books at Books Inc independent bookstore in Alameda, California, October 16, 2021. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

GOP's war on books: Only the beginning

Amanda Marcotte
(Getty Images/eyeem)

A sign of the times

Nicole Cooke - The Conversation
Little Free Library – Take One – Leave One. (Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to recycle unwanted books

Ashlie D. Stevens, Shane Tan
Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Libraries are becoming refuges

Bob Hennelly
Kit Harington as Jon Snow in "Game of Thrones" (Helen Sloan/courtesy of HBO)

The case against cherry picking

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Emilio Estevez - Credit: "Salon Talks"

Emilio's love letter to public libraries

Alli Joseph
Rose Main Reading Room at the New York Public Library (Getty/Drew Angerer)

The bias hiding in your library

Amanda Ros - The Conversation
Wil Wheaton (AP/Richard Shotwell)

Let's go to the library with Wil Wheaton

Melanie McFarland
(AP)

Angry librarian owns columnist

Matthew Rozsa
This Thursday, May 12, 2016 photo shows the glass-enclosed atrium at the Robert W. Woodruff Library in Atlanta. The design preserves the library's monumental marble stair case and allows more sunlight into the building, while also reducing the amount of noise inside. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) (AP)

Libraries as shelters

Grace Morris - The Conversation
People studying at the British Library in London. (Reuters/Paul Hackett)

Millennials love libraries

April M. Short - Alternet
Students work on computers at the Hunt Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday, May 3, 2016. Creature comforts and technology have supplemented, not supplanted the learning spaces in renovated libraries. Students can choose from open seating to group study rooms to individual carrels for quiet study. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome) (AP)

Donald A. Barclay - The Conversation
(<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/spiderstock'>Spiderstock</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Google is not the answer

John Palfrey

Amien Essif - Alternet
Phillip Roth, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo (AP/Joe Tabbacca/Hachette/Stephen Chernin/Photo montage by Salon)

Why we should write in books

Laura Miller

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=12239'>track5</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(Bexar County Commissioners Court)

Katie McDonough
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