Libraries News

While the Senior Center and the Commission on Disabilities came out winners at Monday's special Town Meeting, members balked at helping the library.

Bev Russell of the Scottsbluff Public Library gives a report to the Scottsbluff City Council on efforts to make a recommendation for hiring of an architect for the librarya s $4.1 million expansion and ...

Was a convicted sex offender living in the Undergraduate Library of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, which is open 24 hours most of the week? According to a November 14 News-Gazette article quoting ...

Cindy and James Dacus should know by early December the outcome of their months-long fight to restrict elementary students' access to a book about two male penguins that raise a chick together.

Two developments took place in the wake of last weeka s general election: Library officials were meeting on what to do after the library levy was defeated, and Sen.

The tongue-in-cheek title alludes to the equally tongue-in-cheek blog that moved last month to LibraryJournal.com, Annoyed Librarian , or, as I call her, AL.

Reading Eagle: Lauren A. Little Darlene S. Mest, operations and adult programs coordinator for the Exeter Community Library, left, checks books in as Taryn M. Himmelreich, a library assistant, moves other books ...

Checking out a book at the library could drastically change if state lawmakers approve a $20 million budget cut to New York's library systems.

Young library patrons rocked out Saturday with 'Guitar Hero' and raced down the virtual 'Fast and Furious' tracks in the renovated Teen Zone at the Marathon County Public Library.

Nov. 16--If not for Moses, Noah, Jughead Jones, Spider-Man and Richard Wright, I may have turned down Sarah Beaman-Jones' invitation.

By Randi Weiner and Barbara Livingston Nackman The Journal News * November 16, 2008 New York's libraries could lose 20 percent of their state aid under Gov.

Despite a push to have it banned from Chico Unified School District, a book some parents found offensive will remain on library shelves among picture books and easy-to-read children's literature.

Loud music blasted from the top floor of the Ossining Public library. In the basement, about 60 kids roared, yelled and stomped.

Japan's librarians estimate upwards of 284,000 books worth more than $4 million disappeared from the country's public libraries in 2007.

Game players at the Pillsbury Free Library in Warner next Saturday could help set a world record.

She is not necessarily a teacher but she has a big influence on the lives of students in Velva.

November 10, 2008 - -- The economic crisis has led to serious budget cuts in Philadelphia, and branch libraries are some of the victims.

CUSTOMERS of a popular Christchurch restaurant threatened with closure have pledged their support to the family who run it.

John Pritchard is nothing if not an optimist. When faced with a packed-to-capacity parking lot and 13,420 anxious voters during the Mooresville Public Library's two-week stint as an early voting site, what did ...

The library said closing on Saturdays was "unfortunate but necessary" The National Library for Wales in Aberystwyth is to close to the public on Saturdays from next April.