Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. TV didn’t kill radio and TikTok hasn’t killed books. In fact, ...

Do you dream of filling the walls of your home library with a fabulous book collection and riding past the packed shelves on your very own rolling library ladder? If the lack of square footage in your ...

Designers are drawn to library aesthetic rooms because they create a space that feels both timeless and inviting. This style blends rich textures, moody colors, and layers of books and antiques to ...

Many academic librarians wonder how to get more students into campus libraries. At the University of Florida’s (UF) George A. Smathers Libraries in Gainesville, we’ve had success by bringing the ...

The Second Floor Reading Room has gone through many transformations since 1961. For decades it was called the Woodrow Wilson Reading Room because it housed the U.S. president’s papers about the League ...

Reading Room: New and Reimagined Libraries of the American West, by Lara Swimmer (photography) and Laura Raskin (words). Forward by Marcellus Turner. Artifice Press, 208 pages, $34.95, click to ...

The Pierce Reading Room on the third floor of Lauinger Library closed Jan. 14 for a yearlong renovation that will redesign and expand the physical space as well as introduce new technology. Georgetown ...

Despite the advent of the internet, there is a sizeable population that is still visiting libraries regularly, some even paying a handsome amount to read in pay-and-use rooms. TOI examines this ...

For years, if you wanted to access the Library of Congress’s ornate main reading room, you first needed to flash a photo ID library card. But starting on April 11 through September, the library will ...