Officials at leading library e-book platform OverDrive said that 2023 was another record-breaking year for digital library circulation, with a 19% increase in library checkouts of digital media over ...

Hoopla is a cloud-based digital library service that offers streaming movies and TV shows, music, and audiobooks to people with a public library membership. Hoopla provides around 250,000 albums and ...

Scaled back so no two books share a page, the library still has 10 to the power of 4,677 books. Deagostini / Getty Images In his 1939 essay, “The Total Library,” the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ...

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...

If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been reading e-books on gadgets since 2005 ...

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious ...

Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, this is a significant step in furthering access to our collections for anyone who wants to use them. The ...

Around the turn of the 20 th century—a golden age for libraries in America—the Snead Bookshelf Company of Louisville, Ky., developed a new system for large-stack library shelving. Snead’s multifloor ...

The sun shined brilliantly overhead Thursday morning as Grambling State ushered in the dawn of a new age and era with a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the grand opening of the institution’s new ...

When Sara Katherine moved back to her hometown of Valparaiso, Indiana, from New York, she noticed a lack of support for LGBTQ youth. So she started volunteering as a mentor at a local nonprofit, ...

The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) in Munich is a central unit of the Max Planck Society that supports scientists from all Max Planck Institutes with a broad portfolio of services in the fields of ...

Is your e-book library a hot mess of random bestsellers, audiobooks, ancient sample chapters and abandoned titles? Deleting old files helps, but consider sorting your content into a Collections or ...