It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...

COOK — Every fall, libraries across the U.S. take part in a weeklong advocacy campaign known as Banned Book Week. Aimed at raising awareness about censorship and challenged books, participating ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up a lawsuit over public library books in the Texas Hill Country, leaving in place a ruling that gives local governments and elected officials wide latitude ...

They come for vintage classics and children's hardbacks and historical romance. They slide titles off metal shelves and fill paper sacks. They browse for hours, scanning spines for the perfect read.

One of the biggest shopping days of the holiday season is fast approaching. It’s acceptable to duck out of Black Friday, stroll through downtown Maryville on Smalltown Saturday or run down the mouse ...

The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of all public libraries in the state. The Alabama ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

MEDINA, Ohio -- The Friends of the Medina County District Library will be busy this winter with book sales and fundraising for the library branches. The money raised will help fund services such as ...

PITTSFIELD — Some 40,000 books destroyed by mold and insects — it’s a librarian’s worst nightmare. In August, Karen Carreras-Hubbard, coordinator of library services at Berkshire Community College, ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --A former Maine resident returned to the town she used to call home so she could return a library book that had been due back 46 years earlier. Diana Edwards, a former resident of Camden ...

One of the few computers at the Fargo Public Library that is not being used by a patron on Monday afternoon, Nov. 3, 2025, in downtown Fargo. The library will increase nonresidential library card fees ...