Libraries News

Retiring Davis & Elkins College President G.T. "Buck" Smith got up close and personal with the 2013 graduates at the school's 104th annual commencement ceremonies Saturday.

A trio of informal open houses have been slated to say farewell to Karen Kotulis-Carter, retiring director of the Bloomfield Township Public Library.

With inspiration from the Buffalo Gals folk song, children's book author Joanne Ryder wrote the words to the picture book Dance by the Light of the Moon .

"I fell madly in love with the ukulele. "I became a victim of UAS - Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome." -- Vicki Richards, ukulele lover Bruce Wallis, left, of Broadview Heights, and Jeff Moenich, of Parma, have been the driving force behind the west side Cleveland Jumping Flea ukulele club.

Ellen Cohen, from left, Kathy Hubbard and Mayor Annise Parker at the Houston Library Foundation's "Mambo in the Gardens." Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen, from left, Margaret Regan and Susanne and Randall Evans at the Houston Library Foundation's "Mambo in the Gardens." The verdant gardens of the Clayton Library Center for Genealogical Research provided an ... (more)

I KNOW that Herefordshire Council has to make savings due to massive cuts in funding from the government, but this should not be to the detriment of the county's library and museum services.

Please join us in celebrating librarian Connie Boonstra's extraordinary 33 years of service at Morrison's Odell Public Library.

The Largo Library will be closed starting Monday, May 20, so that materials can be tagged and read by the new checkout system.

Stay and play. That's the hope of The Union Library of Hatboro as far as visitors to its kids room.

A consistent number of patrons continue to use Massanutten Regional Library, according to numbers reported by library officials.

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For the first time, the Cobb County School District is partnering with the Cobb County Public Library System to create a "unified" summer reading experience for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

LIBRARIES in East Staffordshire will be going against their usual quiet rules by 'making a noise' to highlight their offers for blind and partially sighted.

If you enjoy the new metal railing and bike rack at the Falconer Library, thank Tony Genco the next time you see him in the village.

Libraries within the Lorain Public Library System , including Avon and North Ridgeville, are currently offering Zinio, a digital magazine service.

Josh Hanagarne has somehow managed to fit a small collection of books into his memoir, "The World's Strongest Librarian." There's the story of a boy who fell in love with books early and never let go.

The Livre Exchange is a free library designed by Didier Muller of the French design collective House Work that lets passers-by exchange books for free.

The head of the Wood River Public Library is out of a job, apparently ending a battle with the mayor over an investigation into another employee of the library who was later charged with theft.

Library patrons use public computers at the San Carlos Library on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

After five years as the director of the Shelby Township Library, Dave Conklin has left the position to become the director of the Genesee District Library.