In Washington, the Library of Congress holds 173 million documents on over 500 miles of shelving. Founded in 1800, this US ...

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A "library pharmacy" section lined with books in "yomigusuri" (reading medicine ... our staff to help connect the circle of people." (Japanese original by Atsuhisa Kato, Wakayama Bureau) ...

YOKOTE, Akita Prefecture--Stocktaking of books at a municipal library here is now fully automated under a trial experiment that potentially could see humans removed from the process altogether.

However, books are no longer part of the norm for most people. More than 60 percent of Japanese do not read a single book over the course of a month, according to the “public opinion survey on ...