Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK — After vowing on the campaign trail to give libraries up to 0.5% of the city’s budget, Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his ...

Pickens County Library System canceled youth programs after its board changed book policies, requiring staff to review ...

We're continuing to celebrate Black History Month by looking back at 2016, a year that brought big moments in the culture.

There is only one copy of the book in the five-branch Livingston Parish Library System. It is currently checked out, ...

The company cited attorney-client privilege in rejecting a bid for information related to its deletion of two datasets used ...

New year, new authors are visiting the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML). After introducing the revamped Authors at the ...

In early 2024, executives at artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic ramped up an ambitious project they sought to keep quiet. “Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in ...

It's not every day a library comes across an overdue book from 50 years ago, but it just happened to the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library... for the second time in just a few months! It's ...

Nearly 30 years after a dizzying sculpture fashioned from books was first installed at the Prague Municipal Library in the Czech Republic, literature lovers on TikTok and Instagram have turned the ...

The library is a place for learning and gathering. But like other public spaces, sometimes people do weird things there. Libraries “are great community spaces, but the truth of working in a library ...

Did you resolve to read more books in 2026? We’ve got some inspiration: Now that 2025 is in the books, so to speak, local library systems are sharing their most borrowed titles of last year—which are ...

It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...