Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maurice Newman chats with students about his experiences being a gay refugee from Jamaica during the school's "human library" ...

While most libraries prefer that readers use their quiet voices, we just visited a library in Copenhagen where talking is actually encouraged. Ronni Abergel founded The Human Library (or ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. One weekend in September, a couple walking their dog passed by ...

The phrase "I can read you like a book" became reality at the University Writing Center's Human Library Saturday, Feb. 10 where volunteers and staff were books, available for checkout and open to ...

A “book” who identifies as Palestinian converses with two “readers” at a Human Library event hosted by Williams College Libraries in Williams­town, Massachusetts. Photo: Williams College ...

Readers, you know that feeling you get when you've just finished a book, and you're dying to pepper the author with a million and one questions? You just have to know why they did what they did on ...

At a Human Library event at the Santa Monica Public Library in California, a police detective "book" talks to two "readers." Human Library events and projects, which are held at libraries across the ...

There will be books, and there will be readers. Certainly stories to follow with lessons to learn, just waiting to be checked out. But this library doesn’t deal in text. Next Saturday, April 20, the ...

When two people on completely different ends of the political spectrum told Mary Farmer-Kaiser that the Human Library was a great idea, she says she knew she needed to do what she could to make one ...

Everyone knew each other on McKinstry’s Mill Road in the 1960s. Black families lived in roughly 10 houses in the community outside Union Bridge, Barbara Thompson, 74, recalled. Children addressed ...