Libraries News

You'd have to be living under a rock - or under a big mound of books - not to know that the friendly neighborhood public library offers more than the fortnightly loan of a scholarly tome, a slick fiction novel or the latest selfhelp guide.

Denise DiPaolo has so much positive energy a stranger might guess she's got a passion for espresso.

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The McKinley Park branch of the Brooklyn Public Library at 6802 Fort Hamilton Parkway on the corner of 68th Street leases the space from a BMO Harris Bank branch in Arizona, and pays $20,000 per month in rent - a rate the library's executive president says it cannot afford.

Members of the Ashe County Board of Commissioners receive an update on the state of the Ashe County Library.

The Awesomeness of My Little Free Library When we bought a house in late 2012 in the urban neighborhood of Capitol Hill, DC, those little boxes of book love called Little Free Libraries were just starting to make the news.

The National Library Board or NLB will be setting up an Early Literacy Library in April.

When the staff of the Montclair Public Library finished their proposed budget for 2014, they took another step closer to a "return to stability," according to Library Director David Hinkley.

New Delhi, March 9: You have come across them in your city, town or village - cramped, dusty and poorly lit buildings with racks of tattered, hard-bound books no one seems interested in.

A desire to spend more time with her children brought Melinda Baty into a career that allowed her to touch the lives of thousands of the county's children.

More than two decades after a cookbook was checked out of a Kansas library, it's just now been returned.

An author from the Harborough district is enjoying great success with her titles now being published as e-books, paperbacks and in large library print.

Accompanying the Assumption BVM student was Isabelle Palmer, an aspiring dancer who is ready to enter a prestigious program to hone her talents.

A festival to promote reading, engage new library users and encourage people to explore and celebrate their city will launch next month.

TURNING 21 is a traditional coming-of-age, for organisations as well as people. And if any proof were needed that Glasgow Women's Library has reached maturity, one needs only to look through the pages of the 21 Revolutions, an ambitious collection of new work created for the Library by some of the leading artists and writers in Scotland.

It took more than 90 rounds and a delay of two weeks, after judges ran out of words.

It started with reading programs that provided her an escape from summer heat, and her admiration of Mrs. Allstot - her neighbor and school librarian -- and the solace a stack of books provided amidst hectic high school days.

The Anne Frank House, a museum dedicated to the Jewish girl who died in a Nazi concentration camp, on Saturday donated 3,400 copies of its catalogue to Japanese libraries after hundreds of copies of Anne Frank's diary were damaged.

I'm happy that I live on the West Coast and in Pacific Standard Time so I can watch the Academy Awards and turn off the TV before midnight.

Tulsa Public Schools broke ground on a $2.9 million expansion for Mitchell Elementary that will create eight new classrooms and a 2,600 square foot library that will double as a tornado shelter.