Books and libraries have become such an unlikely flashpoint of controversy in America recently amid efforts to censor certain types of content and books that it can be hard to remember what important ...

Note: This post contains mentions of substance abuse and abuse. The library is a magical place to many, but there's a lot more to working in one than just shelving books and handing out library cards.

In the previous column, we talked about the first law of library science — books are for use. What has become known as the Laws of Library Science was a theory developed by a librarian in India in ...