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The exterior of the newly opened Dikan Center for photography in Accra, Ghana.

The new Dikan Center in Ghana displays a collection of photography from across Africa

Arts, Culture & Media

Paul Ninson joins The World’s host Marco Werman to discuss the opening of the new photography library that he created, called the Dikan Center in Accra, Ghana, to showcase work by Africans and African Americans.

A painted portrait of Christopher Columbus' son, Hernando Colón,

Christopher Columbus’ son’s universal library is newly rediscovered in this lost tome

Books
A mother and son embrace in a library.

For some Iranian families separated by the travel ban, this border library offers brief moments of reunion

Immigration

An Artful Ransom Note Generator

Arts, Culture & Media

New Digital Public Library of America seeks to increase accessibility to treasured works

Environment
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Digital books replacing print in schools

Environment

Why a prep school in Massachusetts replaced its library books with digital versions, and colleges are moving to electronic textbooks.

The World Digital Library

A UNESCO project, the World Digital Library, is a collaboration among libraries and cultural institutions around the world that are making some of their treasures available on line.

Library Access to E-books Worries Publishers

While e-books are extremely convenient for readers, their proliferation is causing more financial problems for the already  beleaguered  publishing industry. A growing number of people with e-readers want to borrow e-books from their local libraries. But publishers, selling the electronic manuscripts at record highs, are wary of letting libraries loan them out.   Sean Corcoran is senior reporter […]

The World

2010 Librarian of the Year on the Library of the Future

Arts, Culture & Media

Louisville, Kentucky’s library director, Craig Buthod, has reinvented the libraries into community education centers and developed a program that combines student IDs, bus tickets and library cards. He is the 2010 Librarian of the Year.

The World

Discovered Letters Inspire Readers at Troy Library

Business, Economics and Jobs

E.B. White was just one of the famous authors and public figures who responded to librarian Marguerite Hart’s request for letters to urge the children of Troy to read. The letters she requested were just rediscovered by Phillip Kwik, a Troy librarian.

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