Libraries News

When her son Jack Gavron heads to college in the fall, Mindy Fox will get a library.

Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" celebrates its 54th birthday today, and for the first time, it's available as an e-book.

Services were disrupted across the county as several trade unions co-ordinated industrial action to take place on the same day.

Large, bright-colored birdhouses are being placed throughout Merced County, but they aren't meant to shelter birds; instead, they lodge children's books.

On Wednesday, news of the National Library Board's withdrawal of some books was reported in the mainstream media.

The YMCA has teamed up with the Northwestern Illinois Building Trades Council to challenge two teams of interns to build little free libraries.

Type Riders II Amy Tingle, left, and Maya Stein write poems on their typewriters using the phrase "jump for joy" as their inspiration and titles.

Children's librarian Gay Catherine "Gigi" Galich was an innovator behind many of the Evanston Public Library's popular programs.

North Finchley library worker Cathy Yilmaz, is joined by fellow public sector workers outside North Finchley Library this morning Library staff, binmen and teaching assistants are among dozens of public sector workers taking part in a day of strike action over pay, pensions and cuts today.

A Minnesota appeals court has revived a sexual harassment claim filed by a library administrator in Wabasha County District Court.

Trying to read every last book in an extensive series, or hoping to find a nonfiction volume that's not on the shelves at the Daleville Community Library? Unfortunately, patrons of the Daleville library don't have the option of requesting materials through the interlibrary loan program anymore.

BRANDON – Library patrons are being urged to “Take Flat Andy with you!” for a chance to win a $100 or $500 prize.

Minneapolis Police are asking for the public's help to find out who set fire to a "little library" on July 6. "Little libraries" look similar to mailboxes.

Trib Photo/Sue Tone Prescott Valley mother Janine Smith and daughter Erika, 12, visit the PV Library every two weeks, and have since Erika was a baby.

Franklin County's first Little Free Library, sponsored by Conococheague Institute in Welsh Run, will open with a ribbon cutting July 16. The library, measuring four square feet, is located in the back yard of a home at 11810 Mercersburg Road, Mercersburg, at the crossroads of Pa.

The Mount Airy Public Library opened its Meet the Author luncheon series on Monday featuring local writer Tom Perry, who spoke about his book, "A Dinky Railroad."

"Flying Around Book Ops" is a short video by photographer Nate Bolt featuring drone footage of the massive book sorting center in Queens, New York that provides material for the 150 branches of the New York and Brooklyn Public Libraries .

After several consecutive years of budget reductions, the Jacksonville Public Library has submitted to the mayor's office a request for more than $3 million in the 2014-15 budget compared to last year's budget.

SPOKANE, Wash. What was a new trend two years ago has expanded to more than 30 "Little Free Libraries" in the nooks of the Inland Northwest, from Deer Park to Coeur d'Alene.

As a child, one of my absolute favorite places to be was in the back of the children's section of Butman-Fish Library, seated next to a stack of books I had randomly grabbed off the shelves.