When it comes to books, many of us often pick new ones to read. However, is it so? Should new books be our preference when it comes to reading? Not really! While it’s worth celebrating the work of new ...

CORRECTION: A photo caption in an earlier version of this article gave incorrect information about Barbara Heritage’s job. She is the director of collections, exhibitions and scholarly initiatives at ...

The library announced on Facebook that their long-lost book had been returned to their collection after a Boston resident found it and gave it to the Cambridge Public Library. The book was "The Early ...

Are you in the mood for a little fall cleaning? If you’re looking around the house and wondering where to start, maybe peruse your bookshelf. You may notice a few old titles collecting dust. But ...

If you live in Fairfax County, there is a new program that will give old books new life and keep them out of ...

Student workers and full-time faculty are working to repair, rebind and renew old books in the BYU conservation laboratory. Repairs can be made by sewing new bindings on old pages, patching up pages ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

NPR Staff recommends several non-fiction titles from Books We Love: "Good Movies As Old Books," "Pakistan," "Baldwin: A Love Story," and "One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This." ...

As a graduate student in Laramie, Wyo., in the 1990s, Sarah Mentock spent many weekends hunting for bargains at neighborhood yard sales. On one of those weekends, she spotted “The Lord of the Isles,” ...