For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

Just as the name implies, Susan Orlean's "The Library Book" (Simon & Schuster, 317 pp., ★★★½) celebrates the love of books and the wonder of public libraries. But, as it turns out, it is so much more.