Dozens of publishers and prominent authors gathered at the New York City Public Library to call attention to a villain turning millions of books to dust: acidic paper. They signed a statement vowing ...

Deep in the climate-controlled, underground recesses of John Hopkins University’s Milton S. Eisenhower Library, hundreds of thousands of aging books stand on modern steel shelves, their pages silently ...

Love that old book smell? Libraries consider it a ticking time bomb. But now, a device that chemically analyzes the musty smell of a book’s decay could help librarians better preserve their aging ...

Short of a major rescue mission, U.S. libraries will confront a stark reality come the turn of the century. Many of their books will have turned to dust from acidic corrosion. Worried about this ...