In order to be really good as a librarian, everything counts towards your work, every play you go see, every concert you hear, every trip you take, everything you read, everything you know. I don’t...

She, of all people, knew the sacred trust that word — “librarian” — implied. Because a librarian was supposed to to be a spiritual, intellectual mentor who kept your secrets and didn’t give you a...

Everybody should have a librarian.

I found that I could not contemplate an adult life in which books were not dominant. I wanted to live and work with them…I had to be able to take books from their places, run...

A library is a place to go for a reality check, a bracing dose of literature, or a “true reflection of our history,” whether it’s a brick-and-mortar building constructed a century ago or a fanciful...