Libraries News

Claudine Janota, Goliad County library director, points to a map of the 1857 cattle drive depicted in the oil paintings by Victoria artist Tom Jones.

The Santa Barbara City Council has approved a design contract for the Children's Library project, which will be located in the lower level of the Central Library downtown.

McClure math teacher James Johnson , Seattle Public Schools Central Region executive director Sarah Pritchett and McClure librarian TuesD Chambers were special guests at the 2013 McClure Mixer.

The south central Texas city's completely digital library, known as the BiblioTech, lets Bexar County readers check out up to five books at a time on their devices from home or wherever they are.

Alfred Kinsey, Reverend Dr. Ted McIlvenna and Masters and Johnson, have all paved the way for people around the world to understand sexuality in a sex positive way.

Representatives from the library industry's leading organizations and associations are attending SXSW Interactive to raise awareness of the ways librarians are already supporting emerging entrepreneurs and tech businesses across the country.

Louise Aldridge, children's librarian at Wisbech Library, talked to the children in assembly about all the books she would be reading to the children across the week in the school library and introduced them to Cyril the Dragon.

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.

Once you're logged in, at the top of each article, video or slideshow you will see a list of your Facebook friends who recently visited Choose to share stories you'e read with your friends or turn sharing OFF to keep your reading experience anonymous .

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.