Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MONROE COUNTY — People judge each other. People need more human connection. Those beliefs motivated three local women to bring the ...

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 ...

Libraries are repositories of books, but Wilton Library is planning an event where the books are actually people. It’s the Human Library, where a group of people may be “checked out” to tell their ...

A conventional library is filled with books. But there's another side to the libraries you are used to. It’s the human library, and instead of books containing stories, it’s people who share their ...

Volunteers at a “human library” share their stories through conversations— sort of like a live, human memoir. The event’s organizer, Prairie Markussen, stands with Alejandro Joleanis, a volunteer who ...

Spending quality time with a good book that opens up new thinking is always something readers strive for. Being able to have a one-on-one conversation with the author of that book to create a ...

Every avid reader has probably wished at some point that they could sit down and have a conversation with a character from their favorite book. The Human Library tries to do that by having “human ...

PETOSKEY — Patrons can stop by the Petoskey District Library on Aug. 3 to check out a "human book," or people who have volunteered to offer their stories and perspectives. According to a press release ...

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 ...

correctionA previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Paul Needham as a librarian at Princeton University. He is a retired librarian who had worked at Princeton. The article has been ...