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The diaries of war poet Siegfried Sassoon have been published online almost 100 years since Britain declared war on Germany.

Until the summer of 2013, the primary sources of technology support services at Fairfield University in Connecticut were the reference librarians and circulation staff at the DiMenna-Nyselius Library-not the technology help desk.

Little free libraries are small cabinets full of free books. You can leave one or take one.

Bay City resident Connie Homestead says she didn't tell her family she was coming to the 40th annual Friends of the Bay County Libraries' Used Book Sale this year.

The Stonington Public Library has received notification of a $12,000 grant from the Davis Family Foundation.

Michael Dourado was charged with indecent exposure after a 9-year-old girl and a librarian witnessed him touching himself in the library.

To mark 150 years of library service in the city, Oshawa Public Libraries is holding a street party and the entire community is invited.

The Georgetown Township Library offers public Wi-Fi access, but if you're looking for an outlet to plug in your tablet, good luck.

Government cuts have been blamed as Cornwall Council looks set to slash the mobile library service, leaving just one van serving the whole of the county.

The addition will double the size of the existing library. The groundbreaking for the new $2.6 million, 6,300-square-foot addition to the South Plainfield Public Library Wednesday evening seemed more like a celebration.

Libraries ACT is making tax time easier by providing access to the Australian Taxation Office e-tax 2014 program at each of their branches.

It was just more than a month ago that Fort Smith business and civic leaders said a concept similar to North Little Rock's Arkansas Innovation Hub was needed in the area and now the Fayetteville and Fort Smith public libraries have plans to introduce one aspect of the AIH concept.

Vancouver Public Library's central branch has been named by Travel + Leisure as one of the 20 most beautiful in the world - the only Canadian one to make the list.

As a retired librarian, I appreciate the Advocate's concern about libraries having trouble getting their books back, expressed in the editorial, "Libraries should drop jail policies on overdue books," on July 25. Having worked in both public and college libraries, I can say that we are a profession dedicated to serving our constituents.

This summer, MIT has partnered with the city of Cambridge to participate in the Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program .

The aggressive vibrato of the bandoneon hung in the air. While the tango singer spoke of romantic spats, hopeless drunkards and lonely whores, an elderly Argentine couple clasped hands.

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Mansfield in the Great War is a Nottinghamshire County Council exhibition taking place at Mansfield Library, West Gate, from 1st -31st August, during library opening hours.

How many books is too many books? What makes you a book hoarder? What do you do when you have too many? In Japanese, there's a word for it: tsundoku.

The lifelong Labour supporter, former councillor in Leyton and deputy mayor prior to the formation of Waltham Forest, was known throughout the community for her activism and support of public libraries.