Libraries News

Halifax's library board is looking for a new chief librarian and there's a lot of interest expected in the position because of the city's eye catching new Central Library.

Derbyshire Gold is produced by Derbyshire County Council and the new 2014 edition is now arriving in libraries and county, district and borough council offices across the county.

On Friday morning at the Public Library Association conference in Indianapolis, author and speaker David McRainy said that our memories can not be trusted.

Princeton Public Library employee Hanna Lee chats with You Peng,5, right, about his Lego creation at the library's Lego Club, a non-competitive community-based Lego session, including building time and round-table discussion, for children in grades 3-5.

Salem Public Library patrons can expect some big changes to the atrium, entranceway and children's department this spring as the building expands for the first time since 1984.

Mary Dunning took this photo at Tawharanui Regional Park while camping. "The ranger assured us that it appeared after the storms and land slips a couple of years ago and he had no idea, until his son pointed it out, that it looks very much like a kiwi.'

WAM SHARJAH, 16th March, 2014 -- Knowledge Without Borders, KWB, has started distributing books to Emirati families in Al Dhaid City and nearby areas as part of the 12th phase of its home library distribution campaign in the Emirate of Sharjah.

"The interest in e-books is really rising, it continues to rise, and so we're responding to that need," said Ross Bliss, manager of lending services.

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.