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Almost every afternoon, librarian Linda Kenton helps students from San Rafael's Bahia Vista Elementary School find the books, Web pages and other materials they need to complete their assignments.

A programme of improvements costing 600,000 has started in libraries across South Gloucestershire.

Burlington police stated that on March 12 around 12:45pm a 58-year old woman reported being the victim of a sexual battery.

What would we do wihout libraries? Piney queried himself. He had done a trip back in time and found himself walking home from elementary school and stopping on the way at Miz Rebecca Simms' home, the front room of which served as the Rocky Mount Public Library.

York County faces a shortfall of up to $8 million in the coming year's budget, and leaders have until the end of May to decide how they'll adapt.

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LETHAM residents of all ages are joining together in a determined effort to maintain a library facility in the village.

Frantic messages with hashtags of #cmlibrary and #2millioninoneweek are dotting the twitterverse about efforts to avert - or at least allay - sudden plans to close 12 branches of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library and lay off 148 library workers April 3. The startling March 17 announcement was followed the next day by a library board meeting at ...

Authorities in Pocatello are trying to find out if a Marshall Public Library official discharged a handgun inside the library.

This post originally appeared on Athena's Head, Martha's Nichols's blog on Open Salon.

YAKIMA, Wash.- Thousands of people are registered and use the Yakima Public Library.

The Internet giant has been copying and storing millions of the world's out-of-print and out-of-copyright books in a vast online archive.

Hospitals, nursing homes and programs that help disabled people are facing cuts, nearly 250,000 more Medicaid patients would be moved into managed care programs and state money for libraries would be eliminated in budget bills approved by Senate committees Friday.

Susan Krashinsky Published on Friday, Mar. 19, 2010 7:37PM EDT Last updated on Friday, Mar.

A parent in North Fond du Lac is requesting a book of poems be removed from the combined middle and high school library.

The library in Pewsey is due to close on April 1, two months later than planned, so that demolition can begin.

Across the state, readers are becoming reacquainted with Scout, Boo Radley and a book they probably first read in high school.

The Battery Park Library finally opens today and it just so happens to be the greenest library branch of the New York Public Library system! Certified LEED Gold and built at the base of a LEED certified condominium high rise, the new community addition will certainly be a source of pride for area residents.

The Smiley brothers may not be the first men who come to mind on Saint Patrick's Day, but for patrons of the A.K. Smiley Public Library, Wednesday marked the 182 birthday of the philanthropists.

Well-known librarian, educator and tireless reading advocate Nancy Pearl has been selected the winner of the 2010 Margaret E. Monroe Library Adult Services Award, an honor administered annually by the Reference and User Services Association .