The nation's capital is full of towering statues and monuments honoring American presidents and legends. But inside the Library of Congress, it's possible to find more obscure and real-life mementos ...

There’s a different kind of library in D.C. that, instead of lending out books, lends out tools. And after the D.C. Tool Library fell on hard times, the community answered its call for help. Over the ...

Mundelein resident Van Miller's aha moment came when the need for a lawnmower arose while visiting his daughter in Portland, Oregon. His son-in-law took him to one of the three local tool-lending ...

CHAPEL HILL--The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's newest "library" is not the kind that will entice an average book lover, but it eventually will please thousands of plant scientists ...

Uniquely is a Sacramento Bee series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Sacramento area so special. As a child, I loved the book, “From the ...

The unique Haskell Free Library and Opera House was built in 1904 intentionally to straddle the border between Derby Line and the Quebec town of Stanstead. Inside, black tape representing the border ...

From the ashes of a Nazi bonfire in Germany on May 10, 1933, the nucleus of ## unique American library has arisen. On that date 20,000 books were fed to the names throughout Adolph Hitler’s Third ...

With Washington County voters weighing whether to renew a levy for library services in the November election, support for the measure among city leaders — who the county usually relies on to publicly ...