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 ...

The saying, “Don't judge a book by its cover,” means you shouldn't prejudge the value of something by its outward appearance. And that was one of the messages at a college near Washington, where some ...

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 ...

Purdue will host its annual Human Library event on April 1. The Human Library aims to reduce prejudice among people of diverse backgrounds and provide a safe platform to learn about others’ ...

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 ...

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 ...

WILTON — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...