Editor’s note: In her just released book, “A New Era of Philanthropy,” Dimple Abichandani, a philanthropy leader and adviser, imagines herself as a podcast host interviewing Andrew Carnegie, often ...

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It has always seemed like nothing short of a miracle to me that public libraries exist at all. Now, more than a century after Andrew Carnegie helped ignite the popularity of the local library in ...

In 1833, the first completely tax-supported library opened in New Hampshire. Between 1886 and 1919, industrialist Andrew Carnegie put up money to open more than 1,600 public libraries, then nearly ...

As Bill Gates prepares to plow $200 billion into his philanthropy before it sunsets in 20 years, he is counting on innovation and, eventually, a global change of heart to resume the progress made on ...

A once-decrepit library on a bluff at the edge of downtown Waukegan finally came back to life last week, six decades after moving into a modern building four blocks away. The reopening was the ...

National Library of Scotland and Britain's major opera companies. A purpose-built concert hall, the Dunard Centre, is set to be built on St Andrew Square and will be the first in Edinburgh for ...

will occur at 6 p.m. on May 13 at the Cheboygan Area Public Library. Sharen Lange, project coordinator for Cheboygan Commons, will discuss the current hold on the project, site remediation and ...