This is a time of transition in academic libraries. Core functions -- like reference services, collection development, and preservation -- are being rethought and redefined as libraries move from ...

For years, we’ve been hearing that traditional library reference service is dead. In reality, reference just disappeared, like Jimmy Hoffa. But unlike in the case of Hoffa, no one in the library field ...

I grew up without a local public library. The Ramapo Catskill Library System in New York provided bookmobile service to my small town, so I at least had access to recreational reading, but it was ...

Last portrait of James J. Hill taken in 1916 fronm "James J. Hill and the Opening of the Northwest," by Albro Martin. Oxford University Press, Fall 1976 James J. Hill Center officials announced ...

Housed on the fourth floor of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, The Film Reference Library is one of Toronto's best-kept secrets for movie-lovers and film-buffs. Free and open to the public, the FRL provides ...

For Toronto novelist and lawyer Robert Rotenberg, it's what the city's Reference Library doesn't have that also makes it the perfect place to work on a novel. This will give writers wandering from ...