Libraries News

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.

From anime and handwriting to art and young adult books, Cobb Libraries offer a variety of activities for children and teens to enjoy in December.

Libraries in Sussex County are now offering a service that allows cardholders free access to digital copies of more than 130 magazines.

For the last six months, Miami-Dade County's fire union and the mayor's office have been slinging mud and insults at each other over a budget shortfall that threatened 59 jobs and three fire rescue trucks.

The Thomas H. Leath Memorial Library will be hosting its first Family Christmas program this from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 pm.

Now, up to 40 smaller libraries throughout the county face being run by their local communities with the council staffing 15 larger buildings in central locations.

When it opened in 1972, the Johnson Building of the Boston Public Library in Copley Square was hailed as a shining example of noted architect Philip Johnson's modern design.