Baker & Taylor is one of very few companies that handle book distribution for libraries — getting books from publishers into borrowers hands. But a few months ago, the company abruptly announced it ...

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has begun dispersing surprise $10,000 gifts to every Carnegie library still operating in ...

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent ...

Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn’t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San ...

Libraries are reinventing themselves all over the place, becoming a co-working place here, going bookless there. In order to stay relevant, they're are capitalizing on their strengths, and one of ...

Communities in the West are coming together to save their libraries, with the number of users growing for the first time ...

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 ...