Libraries News

The Oct. 18, 1896, cover of the New York Journal is one of millions of pages of material in the library's collection.

Western Watauga Branch Librarian Jackie Cornette, right, accepts the inaugural Hugh Hagaman Volunteer Service Award with Peg Hagaman on Nov. 19. Cornette is a full-time employee with the library and has served as volunteer coordinator for the Boone Mall book sale and the High Country Festival of the Book.

The Friends of the Newberry County Library System recently presented library director Sam Ziady with a $5,000 check to go toward two computers that the Newberry Library placed in its children's section.

Retiring St. Charles Public Library Director Diana Brown greets a well-wisher Sunday during a reception held in her honor.

The Haddonfield Public Library wasn't even officially open yet Thursday, but Dorothy Peppard already had 29 preschoolers' amazingly full attention as she read them tales of animals' wintertime adventures.

'Reading Reboot' gets kids aged 5-13 to keep up their reading over the holidays with fun challenges, stamps, a futuristic passport and great spot prizes.

Suddenly, his head pops up, the bangs of his hair whipping back. In a black-and-white, silent film from 1941, this bony lad doesn't offer the stage presence of the man who will play Moses or Marc Antony one day.

A unique program at the Hoboken Public Library is encouraging children to read by providing them a captivating audience - dogs - is looking for certified therapy dog volunteers.

A Ribbon Cutting ceremony will take place at 2:00 p.m. on December 14, 2013 to mark the Grand Opening of The Edge, a groundbreaking, high-tech library just for teens.

HITLER'S memoirs, gruesome novels on serial killers and the Fifty Shades Of Grey trilogy were among the books borrowed by Scotland's prison inmates this year, officials have revealed.

It will be hosting a story event on Tuesday, December 10, at 7pm, featuring Colin Emmett, Martin Horler and members of the newly formed Mendip Storytelling Circle.

Bob Crisp/The Daily Home Jenny Trickett, director of the Munford Public Library, dons a Santa hat to lead activities during the library's Holly Jolly Christmas Party.

LONG BEACH >> The first new library built in North Long Beach since 1951 is scheduled to start construction in early spring, officials said.

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.