“And this is only the beginning,” remarked John S. Robling, chair of the National Book Committee cosponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and the American Book Publishers (ABP) about the ...

While it’s never been particularly difficult to lament the decline of reading in American society, the 1950s were a time when literary pessimists found plenty to be concerned about. A Gallup poll in ...

Millions of books, journals, manuscripts, and images fill the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library, on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health. The ...