The book, due back in 1949, is found in an attic and is finally available to be borrowed again.

Almost two thirds of library staffers think no topic should be off limits when it comes to library books, at a time when thousands of book titles about LGBTQ+ characters, race, and racism, and those ...

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...

For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

Debates over school library books that have overtaken school board meetings across the country have thrust a generally (and sometimes literally) quiet corner of American public schools into the ...

NEW BEDFORD - A library book from New Bedford that was checked out nearly 120 years ago was found in West Virginia and returned. The rare books curator at West Virginia University recently found a ...

Librarian Sharon McKellar of California's Oakland Public Library has been collecting personal objects she finds in returned books — an assortment of make-shift bookmarks ranging from paper scraps to ...

A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute.

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely.

The administration has rebranded our library as a communal space for doing almost everything except reading. A student looking for a book in a school library. Take a peek into the library at ...

For the Iowa City Public Library, one of the largest in Iowa, the role of the distributor is but one step in a process to get a fresh book onto its shelves. The system, which serves 100,000 residents ...