The library aims to transform into a community hub, expanding partnerships while maintaining core services across its eight ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Texas county’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries, leaving in place a lower court ruling that allowed the purge. The books ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

The New York Public Library is giving away free books starting Thursday from its list of the best books of 2025, including at a branch on Staten Island. Every year, librarians and staff at The New ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

PITTSFIELD — Some 40,000 books destroyed by mold and insects — it’s a librarian’s worst nightmare. In August, Karen Carreras-Hubbard, coordinator of library services at Berkshire Community College, ...

Tennessee public libraries are launching an “immediate age-appropriateness review” of children’s and teens’ books following a state government directive, with some calling the plan ...

PITTSFIELD — When librarians at Berkshire Community College began to unpack the school’s book collection this fall to prepare for the new academic year, they received a nasty shock: Many of the books ...

Nov. 4 (UPI) --A former Maine resident returned to the town she used to call home so she could return a library book that had been due back 46 years earlier. Diana Edwards, a former resident of Camden ...

Book lovers visited the Friends of the Libray book house on Main Street for the start of the fall book sale on Saturday. The sale includes classical and modern fiction, textbooks and large-print books ...