Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s Harry the Dirty Dog made its way back to the Chantilly ...

It's unclear who returned the long-overdue books, but the patron left an apologetic note.

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Before we got the iconic art deco building, L.A.’s main library collection practically couch-surfed for decades.

Anke Gowda, a 75-year-old former bus conductor, has been honored with a Padma Award for establishing Pustaka Mane, a library ...

You may have been later returning a library book, but how about 50 years late?

A worker at a California library opened a package and was surprised to find a book that had been due back at the facility ...

A worker at a California library opened a package and was surprised to find a book that had been due back at the facility ...

Responses to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about keeping and tossing old books. Also: A.I. and human identity; new heights for Stephen Colbert.

For over fifty years, Gowda channelled his passion into Pustak Mane, a vast, free-access library built on the foundation of ...

The La Mesa Branch Library recently received a book that was 40 years overdue, with no late fees, and the staff is hoping the ...

Downtown L.A.’s central library on Fifth Street first opened its doors in 1926, making it 100 this year. But it took decades ...