Reading can be a great way to spend some downtime—and a great way to spend cash. After all, you need to buy that next book, right? Fortunately, you also probably have a local library, which can be a ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

Under a pitch-black sky, Jason Hayes and Chris Little loaded stacks of blue storage totes into box trucks parked outside a Georgetown warehouse that, up until a few years ago, housed luxury sports ...

Libraries worldwide are exploring or ramping up their use of artificial intelligence, according to a new report by Clarivate, a global information services company. The report, released Thursday, ...

(RNS) — It is a weekend morning in the United States and the library doors are open. A young family searches for new picture books for bedtime. An older couple arrives for their tax help appointment.

EFFINGHAM COUNTY, Ga. (WTOC) - Effingham County has voted to dissolve its 80-year partnership with Live Oak Public Libraries. This is the library system that runs both the Rincon and Springfield ...

Host Rev. Paul Brandeis Raushenbush talks with American Library Association President Sam Helmick about the importance of libraries in community life and our democracy. The theme of Sam's presidency ...

For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on ...

There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says ...

Young adults are finding it harder to borrow books reflective of their lived experiences in their schools and public libraries. It isn’t because these stories don’t exist — they do — but because ...

Now that Meta has largely beaten an AI training copyright lawsuit raised by 13 book authors—including comedian Sarah Silverman and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz—the only matter left to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that libraries can take books off shelves based on their content, reversing a district court’s decision in a case involving the Llano ...