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Work is about to start in Evansville on a long-planned expansion of what is regarded as Indiana's oldest public library.

The calendar is full of Christmas parades and pageantry. Just check out the daily listing of events in What's Happening and the weekly summary in Marquee on Fridays and the This Week column on Mondays.

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Fort Morgan Children's Librarian Katie Holmburg sorts through the basket of stuffed animals available for kids to play with in the Children's Library.

Buy this photo Manuscripts such as the one being viewed by Richard Ovenden, The Laudian Acts, are among those being shared OXFORD'S Bodleian Library has teamed up with the Vatican to make available some of the world's most unique and important Biblical texts.

This catalog is one of the premier eBook collections for business, consumer, education, technical, and medical titles available on the market today.

Volunteer MaryNell Hardin is joined by fellow used book sorters Joyce Tremble and Carol Bissell at the recent volunteer appreciation reception at the Library.

ADAORA UDOJIThis is the fourth essay in the second annual "My First Chapter" series organized by the Montclair Public Library Foundation.

The Meridian-based foundation donated $1.25 million for the new 1,860 square-foot library.

The world's largest library association is warning against the NSA's "ravenous hunger" for information and is urging the passage of legislation to rein in the agency's vast surveillance powers.

Six years of work to build a streetcar from The Banks to Over-the-Rhine is expected to come to a... Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage residents, from left: Suellyn Shupe, Allen Feibelman, Josh Miller and Reynaldo and Katie Mullins-Hall check out the neighborhood's new 'Little Free Library.'

The Young Adult Librarians of New Hampshire say the 2014 Teen Video Challenge is part of a national competition that asks teens to create 30- to 90-second public service announcements that promote reading and libraries.

St Albans Library hosted Rainbow Storytime over the weekend to showcase their collection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender picture books available for families with young children.

Many of the books in the open-air library are ancient, their pages yellow. Students will have to share a handful of donated computers and put up with slow-speed Internet, at least at first.

The vast majority of feature-length silent films made in America have been lost due to decay and neglect over the past 100 years, allowing an original 20th century art form to all but disappear, according to a study released Wednesday.

A handful of local residents have answered a call by the Hernando County Public Library System to exercise their brains in a new endeavor, the Socrates Cafe.

When Twitter unveiled Vine in January 2013, reviews were mixed about the free app that allows 6-second-long video loops to be created, viewed, and shared on mobile devices.

WHILE I was in the West Midlands recently, I went to see the new Library of Birmingham.

The restored and expanded Arlington Branch Library is one of the jewels of the Riverside Renaissance.

Berkeley's newly rebuilt West Branch library is shown on Sunday Dec. 1, 2013. The library will reopen Dec. 14 at a cost of $7.5 million.