LIVE Saturday September 6th 9am-6pm ET on Book TV Acting Librarian of Congress Robert Newlen celebrated the start of the 2025 National Book Festival alongside several fea… Book TV presents coverage of ...

For months, a group of conservative Christians have inundated the staff and board of a public library in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, with complaints about books they didn’t want to see on the shelves. Their ...

Here's a look at what was popular for library patrons in books, movies, and things on offer at local public libraries.

The way we access library books has drastically changed. You can access an enormous amount of borrowable content through an iPhone or iPad app — here's how. Public libraries have paired up with some ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Give a book (or another piece of physical media) a second life during the Friends of the Library 2025 book sale series. Friends of the Library, a non-profit that promotes the Toledo ...

Everyone loves top lists, right? This is going to be a list of my favorite reads in 2025. They were not all necessarily ...

"Catch-22," Kurt Vonnegut's "Cat's Cradle," "The Great Gatsby," Toni Morrison's "Beloved," "Lord of the Flies," "To Kill a Mockingbird" ... classics, and every one of them banned in some places. Said ...

Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...

A painted truck stocked with banned books will visit Philadelphia this fall. The Banned Wagon, a mobile library of titles facing bans or challenges in the United States, is gearing up for its annual ...

Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery drew the most readers.

BOSTON — On Feb. 14, 1904, someone curious about the emerging possibilities of a key force of nature checked out James Clerk Maxwell's "An Elementary Treatise on Electricity" from the New Bedford Free ...

Hundreds of New College of Florida library books, including many on LGBTQ+ topics and religious studies, are headed to a landfill. A dumpster in the parking lot of Jane Bancroft Cook Library on the ...