Libraries News

The National Library Board or NLB will be setting up an Early Literacy Library in April.

When the staff of the Montclair Public Library finished their proposed budget for 2014, they took another step closer to a "return to stability," according to Library Director David Hinkley.

New Delhi, March 9: You have come across them in your city, town or village - cramped, dusty and poorly lit buildings with racks of tattered, hard-bound books no one seems interested in.

A desire to spend more time with her children brought Melinda Baty into a career that allowed her to touch the lives of thousands of the county's children.

More than two decades after a cookbook was checked out of a Kansas library, it's just now been returned.

An author from the Harborough district is enjoying great success with her titles now being published as e-books, paperbacks and in large library print.

Accompanying the Assumption BVM student was Isabelle Palmer, an aspiring dancer who is ready to enter a prestigious program to hone her talents.

A festival to promote reading, engage new library users and encourage people to explore and celebrate their city will launch next month.

TURNING 21 is a traditional coming-of-age, for organisations as well as people. And if any proof were needed that Glasgow Women's Library has reached maturity, one needs only to look through the pages of the 21 Revolutions, an ambitious collection of new work created for the Library by some of the leading artists and writers in Scotland.

It took more than 90 rounds and a delay of two weeks, after judges ran out of words.

It started with reading programs that provided her an escape from summer heat, and her admiration of Mrs. Allstot - her neighbor and school librarian -- and the solace a stack of books provided amidst hectic high school days.

The Anne Frank House, a museum dedicated to the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp, on Saturday donated 3,400 copies of its catalogue to Japanese libraries after hundreds of copies of Anne Frank's diary were damaged.

I'm happy that I live on the West Coast and in Pacific Standard Time so I can watch the Academy Awards and turn off the TV before midnight.

Tulsa Public Schools broke ground on a $2.9 million expansion for Mitchell Elementary that will create eight new classrooms and a 2,600 square foot library that will double as a tornado shelter.

Don McCue, director of the A.K. Smiley Public Library in Redlands, said work on a new chiller for the building's 25-year-old heating and air conditioning unit should be done in about six weeks.

World Book Day on March 6 celebrates the joy of reading, and aims to fire a child's imagination and promote language skills from an early age.

Mesa County Libraries are celebrating the 110th anniversary of the author's birthday with a special rendition of the Cat in the Hat.

More than two decades after a cookbook was checked out of a Kansas library, it's just now been returned.

Northwestern University has received an $8.6 million gift from the estate of alumna Marie A. Quinlan.

The Dixon School Board, in its capacity as the Dixon Library Board will meet in Special Session to night to discuss a proposal which many are calling an attempted "Coup" to steal the Dixon Library from the people of Dixon.