The Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) in Munich is a central unit of the Max Planck Society that supports scientists from all Max Planck Institutes with a broad portfolio of services in the fields of ...

Scaled back so no two books share a page, the library still has 10 to the power of 4,677 books. Deagostini / Getty Images In his 1939 essay, “The Total Library,” the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges ...

E-book lending surged during the pandemic and has continued to climb, but restrictive licensing rules mean libraries are ...

Officials at leading library e-book platform OverDrive said that 2023 was another record-breaking year for digital library circulation, with a 19% increase in library checkouts of digital media over ...

Hoopla is a cloud-based digital library service that offers streaming movies and TV shows, music, and audiobooks to people with a public library membership. Hoopla provides around 250,000 albums and ...

World Book and Copyright Day is an annual celebration, on 23 April, to promote the enjoyment of books and reading, connecting individuals and communities with the ...

Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, this is a significant step in furthering access to our collections for anyone who wants to use them. The ...

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious ...

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...

Agata Mrva-Montoya is a member of the Executive Committee of the Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital ...

The Digital Library Cave project re-creates the 5,250-feet-long external cliff face of the Mogao Caves in Dunhuang, Gansu province (PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) For more than a century the Library Cave, ...

For years, The Historical Society of Carroll County researchers hoped to launch a digitization initiative to make HSCC’s extensive archival collections more accessible to the public. Several dedicated ...