Carol Moss Kirkwood does not have a favorite librarian joke. Why did the librarian slip and fall on the library floor? Her eyebrows rise slightly, preparing for the impact of an awful punch line.

Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

Drunks in tutus, drugs in bathrooms and chick fights in parking lots don’t sound like the stuff of a librarian’s memoir, but Don Borchert’s book has them all. In his recently published “Free for All: ...

SKOKIE, Ill. – Strolling through the public library where she has served as director for almost two decades, Carolyn A. Anthony hardly looks the part of firebrand activist. The former president of the ...