Defending our public libraries is part of a larger struggle for the integrity of institutions essential to democracy, writes ...

When the Madison Free Library, as it was known then, opened on May 31, 1875, only men ages 15 and up could check out a book. Today, the library strives ...

It was called an “auspicious opening” with 3,000 books in two rooms. Now there are 9 libraries with millions of items checked ...

A few minutes spent in the upstairs library and writing room of her Iowa City home makes her priorities clear. The sunlit ...

Children and teens who participate in summer programs become better readers. Library programming promotes the creation of ...

EDITOR: Since Canada is bigger geographically than the U.S., and people on average have longer life spans in Canada than in the U.S., doesn’t it make about as much sense for the U.S. to become the ...

We really saw this as an opportunity to strengthen the relationship between public media and public libraries," said ITVS' ...

The District Court of Rhode Island has granted 21 states’ attorneys a preliminary injunction to stop the dismantling of the ...

Palestinian poet and writer from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha, won the Pulitzer Prize for his essays in the New Yorker on Monday, May ...

For generations, libraries have been hubs of information in their communities. Your public library, the library in your school and at your college, even those in hospitals and law firms, are centers ...

The new design for the as-yet-unbuilt New Lots branch of the Brooklyn Public Library offers a more targeted approach. An ...

Culminating the latest season of UCSB Reads, “The Book of Delights” author Ross Gay will give a free, public talk, followed by a Q&A and book signing, at Campbell Hall.