democracy; self-government; personal development; social progress; and everyone’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To support these goals, libraries and library workers should ...

Pythagoras and Damo, detail from The School of Athens, 1509. Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican. Credit: profzucker, Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Damo is a relatively unknown figure of the ancient Greek world, who ...

The head of a woman, possibly Aphrodite. Theano of Crotone, an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician in her own right, is often referred to as the wife of Pythagoras. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/ ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

National Library Week, April 6-12, 2025, is a celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and strengthening our communities.

The need to convert PDF documents into more manageable and editable formats like markdowns is increasingly vital, especially for those dealing with academic and scientific materials. These PDFs often ...

One of the Kindle’s greatest strengths is its ability to store an enormous number of books, so you can take your entire library with you wherever you go. It’s so slim and light, in fact, that you’ll ...

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