When Katrina Kerstetter left the United States in 2003 to teach English in South Korea, she told herself she would come back a year later. But life had other plans and the initial year-long endeavor ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. The public library system in Brownsville, Texas, has a long history of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kim Elsesser covers issues that impact women in the workplace. This article is more than 5 years old. The Human Library promotes ...

Near a street corner in Portland’s Old Town neighborhood, street librarian Diana Rempe has set up a cargo bike with a shelf display and a massive wooden box emblazoned with STREET BOOKS. It’s packed ...

On a recent Friday afternoon, children and parents attended a playtime event in the vibrant first-floor youth section of Portland’s Central Library. Meanwhile, a pair of medical responders carried a ...

In the past, when homeless people left their personal belongings in the aisles of the Addison Public Library, security guards might have asked them to leave. But that was before the library hired a ...