Libraries all over the world have poisonous books that contain materials such as copper, arsenic, mercury, and chrome.

Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at ...

A groundbreaking tool developed by the University of St Andrews is transforming how cultural heritage institutions identify ...

The Delhi government has taken strict action against private schools, issuing orders to stop them from forcing students to purchase books, writing materials and uniforms from a specific vendor.

Local authorities are to spend €40m over the next four years topping up the country's public library stock of books and audio-visual materials. The Local Government Management Association has ...

Former President Joe Biden announced the creation of the “book ban coordinator” position at the Education Department in June of 2023 to advise local school districts against removing material ...

In Boulder County, residents can bring some of those materials that shouldn't normally ... toilets and sinks are also common. So are books. Single-stream recycling plants usually can’t process ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- Lamar Consolidated ISD will remove and restrict books pertaining to gender fluidity from school libraries and instructional material. This 5-1 vote from trustees on Nov. 19 ...

Greenville County School Board members, who gathered Aug. 13 for a committee of the whole meeting, spent two hours discussing the finer points of what constitutes "instructional material" (books ...

Thanks to his rock-star parents, Luc O’Donnell, the hapless protagonist of Alexis Hall’s much-celebrated 2020 queer romance Boyfriend Material, has been famous by association his entire life.

Protesters checked out dozens of gay- and transgender-themed books from a Wichita-area library to keep children from accessing the books. Librarians say checkouts show demand for materials, so ...

Those books arrive daily and are assessed for treatment by the conservation staff. As with any object made of organic materials, books degrade over time. Bindings break, pages tear and crumble ...