Libraries have been buffeted by a string of policies and executive orders in the first year of Donald Trump's second ...

A center for happiness. That, in broad, undefined terms is a phrase that the majority of some 900 survey takers selected when ...

Plans for a new app for Park Ridge Public Library users and reimagined collaborative spaces are underway as of Jan. 1 as part ...

Gainesville Thrives sponsors the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Alachua County. The program provides a free book each month to children under five in specific ZIP codes. A graduation ...

For most people, the library is a place to find a good book. But as a librarian of 33 years, I see the library as so much more. The library is a vital community hub for connection, learning and ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by the Illinois Answers Project. Last fall, when an anxious patron rushed into the Addison Public Library asking how to file a court document, Sara ...

ST. LOUIS – A popular program designed to give internet access to locals in need is being cancelled. The St. Louis Public Library made 12,000 hotspots through its library system. “This tiny little ...

Northland Public Library, 300 Cumberland Road, McCandless, will be closed Dec. 24-25 for the Christmas holiday. The library will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 31 and remain closed through Jan. 1 for New Year’s ...

Readers and patrons of the New York Public Library have a gift to be excited about this holiday season – a $50 million donation from a pair of culture-loving philanthropists. Just months after giving ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - The Friends of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library’s annual ‘Give a Kid a Book’ program is underway. According to a press release from the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public ...

Before the DNA revolution of the early 2000s, genealogy was a study dependent on records. Tracing a line of heritage could hit a dead end if documentation had gone missing or been destroyed. But as ...

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