The Richland Public Library has checked in a book that was due 63 years, 11 months and 1 day ago. But despite the extreme tardiness, there will be no fine, the library assured in a Facebook post. That ...

The annual Friends of the Library book sale is set to take place this weekend at the Oklahoma Expo Hall in the OKC fairgrounds, offering over 500,000 books, CDs, DVDs, and more. The annual Friends of ...

COLUMBIA — Read Freely Fest is back at the Richland County Library for 2026 with plans to celebrate stories and ideas with a full lineup of author talks, panels, performances and interactive events — ...

Police escort 2 men upset by library board chairman's book-banning list Public speaker weeps after meeting Book issues tied to President Trump executive order, 'not a law' Editor's note: This story ...

Dimitris Economou returned this copy of Harry the Dirty Dog 36 years after his parents checked it out. Fairfax County Public Library Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

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 ...

COOK — Every fall, libraries across the U.S. take part in a weeklong advocacy campaign known as Banned Book Week. Aimed at raising awareness about censorship and challenged books, participating ...

Dec. 19 (UPI) --An overdue library book was returned to the Chantilly Regional Library after 36 years and a trip to Greece. The Fairfax County Library system posted about the book's return on Facebook ...

These are the books New Yorkers couldn’t get enough of in 2025. The city’s three public library systems—the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, and Queens Public Library—have released ...

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Now, a lower court's decision allowing the removal of books from its public library system can stand. The case goes back to 2021, when a group of Texans in the county located about 80 miles northwest ...