This partnership enables Soutron Global’s LMS VERSO to support libraries in a concrete, meaningful way by providing ...

For Jennifer Pearson, the choice was difficult but clear: Shut down the library, or people could die. “My library was filled with older people,” Pearson says. “I just wanted to go out and scream, ‘Go ...

A library service which has welcomed families from Afghanistan and supported "community cohesion" has been crowned South West Library of the Year. Cornwall Libraries, which look a ...

The decibel level is climbing as some 20 preschoolers sprawl out on an alphabet-pattern carpet for story hour. One toddler, who's new to the group, is having a bit of a meltdown, so Otter Bowman, a ...

Americans strongly value the role of public libraries in their communities, both for providing access to materials and resources and for promoting literacy and improving the overall quality of life.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many ...

Libraries are in great flux as information is shifting from the analog age to the digital age, as people’s need to acquire knowledge shifts, and as Americans’ interests in personal enrichment and ...

I grew up down the street from my local library, so I spent a lot of my childhood there, either hidden away in the stacks reading books, using the internet to access Myspace, or meeting up with ...

Changes to library services would mean "significant reductions" in staffing hours at several rural branches, opponents have claimed. Northumberland County Council is proposing reducing hours at some ...