Reading can be a great way to spend some downtime—and a great way to spend cash. After all, you need to buy that next book, right? Fortunately, you also probably have a local library, which can be a ...

The mornings are becoming crisp, the leaves are starting to turn, and stepping outside for autumnal walks can be a risky move, with the weather turning from warm sunshine to sudden showers at a moment ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of shelf-ready library books, will be closing in early January. They’re far from a household name, but if you’ve ever held a library book — ...

An event listener is a piece of code that listens for events to occur. They are often used in conjunction with the jQuery library to listen for user interactions, such as clicking a button or resizing ...

For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on ...

In the early 2000s, the Wisconsin library system used some of its allocated federal funds to experiment with a new program: Libby, a platform where users can borrow e-books and audiobooks from their ...

Eleven additional library branches across New York City will now offer service on Sundays. This expansion, created by Speaker Adrienne Adams and the New York City Council, is facilitated by a $2 ...

Libraries are more than just book depositories—they are vibrant community hubs, one of the last free public places where anyone is welcome. In recent years, library workers have been facing a myriad ...

Such removal doesn't violate the First Amendment, the Court holds by a 10-7 vote, because a public library is engaged in "government speech" by choosing which books to endorse From today's majority en ...

The new PBS Independent Lens documentary about America's public library system arrives with a very clever, two-edged title: Free for All: The Public Library. The "Free for All" part refers, of course, ...

It was a hot and dismal day in Charlottesville, Virginia, in June 1815 as Thomas Jefferson watched the last of ten wagons carry away his entire personal library. His beloved 1744 edition of Cicero was ...