Libraries News

If you enjoy the new metal railing and bike rack at the Falconer Library, thank Tony Genco the next time you see him in the village.

Libraries within the Lorain Public Library System , including Avon and North Ridgeville, are currently offering Zinio, a digital magazine service.

Josh Hanagarne has somehow managed to fit a small collection of books into his memoir, "The World's Strongest Librarian." There's the story of a boy who fell in love with books early and never let go.

The Livre Exchange is a free library designed by Didier Muller of the French design collective House Work that lets passers-by exchange books for free.

The head of the Wood River Public Library is out of a job, apparently ending a battle with the mayor over an investigation into another employee of the library who was later charged with theft.

Library patrons use public computers at the San Carlos Library on Thursday, May 16, 2013.

After five years as the director of the Shelby Township Library, Dave Conklin has left the position to become the director of the Genesee District Library.

Local libraries are offering residents throughout the county a free beginners' course to learn the basics of using an iPad.

Dorchester's Tayquan Pomare-Taylor, 14, left, joined First Lady Michelle Obama, right, and Boston Children's Museum President and CEO Carole Charnow at a White House ceremony last Wednesday.

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the National Parks "America's Best Idea." Their libraries may be one of America's best-kept secrets.

Livonia branch library patrons will soon need to get more of their library needs taken care of at the Civic Center Library.

Southend Council needs to slash A 378,000 from their budget budget by March 2016, but bosses believe branch libraries can remain open.

Mr. Stuart Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights , and Dr.

Hunters Creek Elementary School students have a big opportunity with the Little Free Library Program.

Nearly three weeks ago, Lakeview 4-H Hooked on Crocheting Group of kids made 60 hats to act as gifts for the Lake County Libraries' Early Literacy Baby Showers.The Early Literacy Baby Showers is a program designed for babies who were born in the past year.

   In the interest of mobilizing communities to increase literacy, the last of five Little Free Libraries was installed last week on Vittoria Way in Newberg and brings the numbers of the tiny structures to two in Newberg and two in Dundee.    The concept, begun here by Reading for All and the Yamhill County Commission on Children & Families, is part of an international program (www.

FAMILIES, pensioners, students and the unemployed - people from all walks of life - backed a campaign to save the libraries they rely on.

Officials were all smiles at the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Public Library.

Over the week everyone in Years 7 and 8, nearly 400 pupils, had the chance to handle a snake, librarian Alice Day said.

Two men who left Minnesota to join the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia were sentenced to three years in federal prison Tuesday, getting reduced sentences for their cooperation with the government's... A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for allegedly serving as a recruiter in the U.S. for the Somali terrorist group ... (more)