When you go to a brand-new Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) branch, you’ll notice it’s not just the usual giant rows of books as you’d expect. The ...

The Gerritsen Beach Library reopened on Thursday, a year and a half after it closed for necessary upgrades in July 2024.

Lancaster County could lose five passport agencies before the end of the year after federal officials told local libraries they could no longer process passport applications. Karla Trout, executive ...

EPHRATA, Pa. — A new federal policy could remove passport services from all nonprofit public libraries nationwide, according to a recent Facebook post by the Ephrata Public Library in Lancaster County ...

TRI CITIES, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Tennessee Secretary of State, Tre Hargett, sent a letter to public libraries across the state, urging them to begin reviewing books in the children’s section. The order ...

The board overseeing Alabama public libraries on Thursday voted to remove books that discuss being transgender from the teen and children’s sections of all public libraries in the state. The Alabama ...

A SNEAK PEEK INSIDE. SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED ALL THE WAY BACK TO ANCIENT TIMES, AND SOME OF THOSE FAMOUS TEXTS HAVE SURVIVED OVER THE CENTURIES. LINDA HALL LIBRARY AT UMKC IS NOW ...

Libraries are an essential part of any community because not only do they house thousands upon thousands of books and other literature, but they are the sanctuary of information that is free and open ...

SAN ANTONIO — If you’ve ever wandered the River Walk wishing for a quiet nook to sip cocktails and browse lightly-used books, there’s a new hideout calling your name. It’s called The Library Cocktail ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's 408 public libraries delivered an estimated $1.06 billion in services and economic benefits during fiscal year 2024, generating $3.75 in value for every dollar of public funding, ...

ATLANTA — There are more than 400 public libraries in the state of Georgia across 60 library systems. A new study by the Georgia Public Library Service says that Georgia’s 408 public libraries ...

Some might be hard-pressed to assemble anything more than an IKEA flatpack by themselves, while others have every possible tool for every possible occasion and have mastered them all. Many others, ...