Libraries News

During July 2011, the first month of the service, a total of 363 e-books were downloaded.

That little red card that lets you check out books from any of Richmond County's libraries has gone high-tech.

Libraries become partners with One-Stop Career Centers Rep. Rush Holt visits East Brunswick Public Library to discuss libraries inclusion in WIOA Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1rLzWZe Terrie McColl, president of the N.J. Library Association, on Monday presents U.S. Rep. Rush Holt, D-N.J., 12th District, with a plaque ... (more)

New Jersey libraries have been playing a key role in helping job seekers get back on their feet, and now they're going to get official recognition - and all-important funding - in continuing that role.

Pike and Wayne counties are taking the innovative approach to help cut costs and offer more books, DVDs and other resources to residents.

Five Springfield-Ozarks area libraries have art displays on exhibit during the month of August 2014 that speak to our mutual Ozarks Heritage interests.

Doctor Who fans everywhere will be able to tell you that the TARDIS , the Doctor's iconic time and space travel machine, is bigger on the inside than it looks from the outside - which is a fine metaphor for a library, whose content can encompass a universe and range far across time and space.

The West Yorkshire town of Kirklees is contemplating closure of all but two of its 26 libraries, along with other services like braille books for blind readers, as one option while it seeks to more than halve its library budget.

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Libraries in Cleckheaton , Birstall and Heckmondwike are under threat of closure after Kirklees Council announced it may shut all but two across the district, with the possible loss of 100 jobs.

In a pink cheerleading shirt and pigtails, 8-year-old Nicole Hester jumped out of her chair and screamed at the nearby men.

Lois Bowman , 78, who retired after 51 years as the librarian for the Menno Simons Historical Library at Eastern Mennonite University, poses with her successor, Simone Horst, on Wednesday.

Whitfield County just received a new library. And better yet, 26 more are on the way to the region.

Florence Mugambi has a dream. She wants to see a library built in her small hometown of Ontulili, in rural Kenya.

The annual scheme, run by charity The Reading Agency, aims to get primary school children to visit libraries and share a range of books.

Children will be able to get up close and personal to creatures from Dudley Zoological Gardens when staff bring them along.

In an increasing digital age, it is more important now than ever to preserve our local cultural icons.

Residents still have three weeks to give their views on the future of Derbyshire County Council's mobile library service in a consultation to help the authority deal with budget cuts.

However, the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is bucking tradition and giving patrons a chance to try new arts, crafts and exercise equipment through some recent pilot programs.

It's been a year since John Davis started offering a monthly Dungeons and Dragons game day at the Durham County Public Library's main branch.