Libraries News

We all agree that literacy is indispensable to a fully functioning society. However, many don't have access to that most basic of institutions, the public library.

Derbyshire's mobile library service - which last year loaned 719,000 titles - could be scrapped under council cost-saving measures.

A Canada-wide program that offers free and digital access to open library resources called the Canadian Accessible Library Service is set to launch in Saskatchewan on New Year's Day.

LIBRARY opening hours could be slashed in a bid to plug a funding black hole in the county council's books.

Diane Buckle, right, and her daughter Tia, 13, are proud of their Little Free Library that stands across the road from St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Indian Harbour.

Thanks to Nate at The Digital Reader for sending this article my way. It's from a website called The School Library Journal, and it's called "How to Kill a School Library in Ten Easy Steps."

Sure, there may be times when ancestors get "handed to us on a silver platter," but that's not very often.

The Herald of Rock Hill reports that from now through the end of the year, people with a library fine can pay it off by bringing in nonperishable food.

Work is about to start in Evansville on a long-planned expansion of what is regarded as Indiana's oldest public library.

The calendar is full of Christmas parades and pageantry. Just check out the daily listing of events in What's Happening and the weekly summary in Marquee on Fridays and the This Week column on Mondays.

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 .

Fort Morgan Children's Librarian Katie Holmburg sorts through the basket of stuffed animals available for kids to play with in the Children's Library.

Buy this photo Manuscripts such as the one being viewed by Richard Ovenden, The Laudian Acts, are among those being shared OXFORD'S Bodleian Library has teamed up with the Vatican to make available some of the world's most unique and important Biblical texts.

This catalog is one of the premier eBook collections for business, consumer, education, technical, and medical titles available on the market today.

Volunteer MaryNell Hardin is joined by fellow used book sorters Joyce Tremble and Carol Bissell at the recent volunteer appreciation reception at the Library.

ADAORA UDOJIThis is the fourth essay in the second annual "My First Chapter" series organized by the Montclair Public Library Foundation.

The Meridian-based foundation donated $1.25 million for the new 1,860 square-foot library.

The world's largest library association is warning against the NSA's "ravenous hunger" for information and is urging the passage of legislation to rein in the agency's vast surveillance powers.

Six years of work to build a streetcar from The Banks to Over-the-Rhine is expected to come to a... Enright Ridge Urban Ecovillage residents, from left: Suellyn Shupe, Allen Feibelman, Josh Miller and Reynaldo and Katie Mullins-Hall check out the neighborhood's new 'Little Free Library.'

The Young Adult Librarians of New Hampshire say the 2014 Teen Video Challenge is part of a national competition that asks teens to create 30- to 90-second public service announcements that promote reading and libraries.