Libraries News

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.

If you're still looking for a book to tuck into your beach bag, flip through a few of the novels below.

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.

The spaghetti was flying - as was the ketchup, mustard, whipped cream and Hawaiian Punch - Friday afternoon on the lawn of the Great Bend Public Library.

How would Amanda Knox's trial testimonies, interviews and other statements be interpreted if she were to use them to explain another crime? This story is fictional but the quotes are taken verbatim from court documents and interviews Knox has given regarding her involvement with the murder of Meredith Kercher.

As I wait in line at the Mission Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, a mother and her child ask the librarian about a new library card.

John VanLooy is rooting through books ready to be sold at the Friends of the Bay County Libraries' upcoming used book sale.

Management took out the red pens and started slashing. People lost their jobs, and services from street repairs to parks to libraries were cut deeply.

Lara Killian of Capital Health and library database manager Dave MacNeil came up with a new digital health pamphlet system for Halifax Public Libraries.