Libraries News

South Africa's libraries are set for a multibillion-rand overhaul, thanks to a massive cash injection announced at the start of SA Library Week on Saturday by the Department of Arts and Culture.

"They brought them in last week, like giant boxes of Legos,'' said library Director Christina Nolan, standing outside the $20 million Main Street building now nearing completion.

Save for the gaggle of public officials, the telltale red ribbon wrapped around the front of the building and a sizable cake waiting inside, the scene at the Shute Park Library resembled that of any other library once the doors opened on Saturday.

Pew: Americans Are Actively Engaged with Public Libraries Just in time for the 2014 Public Library Association Conference in Indianapolis, Ind., the Pew Research Center Thursday released a long anticipated "typology" of Americans and their library use.

That's Jan Hogan , soon to retire from Southwest Branch Library in Westwood after more than a quarter-century! Her library colleague Jane Gibson shared the photo and this note: Congratulations to Children's Librarian Jan Hogan on her retirement.

Rachel Buckwalter and Haley Wert are avid readers. Their love for reading started as children.

Whether you are horticulturally challenged or green fingered and wanting to expand your knowledge, look no further than your local library this spring.

The south-central Texas city's completely digital library, known as the BiblioTech, lets Bexar County readers check out up to five books at a time on their devices from home or wherever they are.

A COUNCIL facing up to having to save A 168m will attempt to recruit an army of volunteers to ensure it can perform all its statutory duties.

When Prince George's County Executive Rushern L. Baker III unveiled his $3.41 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year, expanding the number of library branches open on Sunday, he explained the request came at the behest of his daughter, Quinci.

Long before she became the Stand-Up Librarian, Meredith Myers was just a girl who loved books growing up in St. Petersburg, a fifth-generation resident of the city.

"I heard about World Storytelling Day March 20 when people around the world get together and celebrate oral storytelling as a community by sharing stories," said Kristy Hennings, reference librarian, Vernon Branch, Okanagan Regional Library.

A man was arrested on Friday for vandalising copies of Anne Frank's "The Diary of a Young Girl" in Tokyo libraries, police said, in a case that has sparked alarm over a rightward shift in Japanese politics.

The Friends of the Rochester Public Library will host an open-house style “Spring Fling” for the greater Rochester community to celebrate the beginning of Spring.

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Trudie and Ben Larrabee embrace in their Darien home. The front room of their home serves as their studio space.

HAGLEY residents will have to fork out to keep their library open following Worcestershire County Council's review of the county's library services.

You might think that in a world of Google and Wikipedia, people who love technology wouldn't care much about the musty old local public library.

New research on library users from the Pew Research Center suggests that people who report high engagement with libraries tend to be pretty tech savvy.

A private contractor hired by the council to run Croydon's libraries has made 11 staff redundant since taking charge, it has emerged.