When I first heard about the Human Library, I immediately thought that Buffalo would be a perfect city to establish a chapter. The first Human Library sprouted up in Copenhagen, Denmark. The concept?

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 ...

San DiegoSan Diego — What is it like for Marina Spacek to have strangers ask her about how she cut and tried to kill herself? “It’s empowering,” said Spacek, who is a mental health advocate, social ...

From Delco to Chesco and Montco to Bucks, what about life in Philly’s suburbs do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Denmark-based Human Library — that’s “Menneskebiblioteket” in Danish — ...

There is a movement that originated in Denmark, where instead of borrowing a book to read a story, you borrow a person instead. The idea, established in 2000, is to "publish people as open books" so ...

When Amanda Sergeyev checked out “Disordered” at Kutztown University’s Rohrbach Library recently, she got the “author” not the book. As part of Rohrbach’s Human Library, Sergeyev got a face-to-face ...

SANTA CRUZ — Historically, libraries have served as windows to the world. By reading books, library patrons have had access to wide ranges of knowledge in a variety of areas, and this knowledge has ...

The biography of Rio Jsanea — a biracial 25-year-old who identifies with neither gender — could be subtitled "A Life in the Gap." Born to a black police officer father and a mother who is a disabled ...

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 ...

People go to libraries to learn something new, to escape into a different world. But what if a trip to the library let you spend time with someone you would never otherwise hang out with? That’s what ...