Two hundred years after the U.S. Congress purchased a huge collection of books belonging to former President Thomas Jefferson, it remains one of America’s greatest literary treasures and has become ...

PORT HADLOCK — Along with moving into a renovated building, the Jefferson County Library is in line for new leadership: Library Director Ray Serebrin is retiring and will be replaced by Associate ...

The Library of Congress has managed to re-create —with the help of rare-book collectors —-the missing two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson's Library. Mark Dimunation, of the Library of Congress, discusses ...

Every item on this page was chosen by a Town & Country editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. I was sitting at a table in the reading room of the rare book division of ...

The next food and cocktail demo occurs at 6:30 p.m. June 11 at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie. The speakers are Nora Wetzel and Elizabeth Pearce. Wetzel, a certified ...

This post is the first in a six-part series commemorating libraries and librarians 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. Librarian Marylyn Haddican wrote the American Library Association (ALA) a letter in ...