A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

Communist Party diktat urges officials to ‘create healthy and safe environment for educating people’

A broad swath of society seems to feel more welcome in a public library rather than a museum. I examined the Brooklyn Public Library as a model of heightened engagement through collective knowledge creation.

This Thanksgiving, let's pledge our support to the libraries and library workers who help sustain our reading culture.

There is a third, more sustainable option: the library.

“By disallowing black inmates to learn about their specific history, the state reinforces the incarceration cycle instead of empowering folks to thrive outside the system as free members of society,” said D. Gilson, a writer for ExpertInsuranceReviews.com

Dorothy Parton's Imagination Library now mails more than one million books per month across the U.S., Australia, Britain, Canada and Ireland

Wikipedia is the arbiter of truth on the internet. It's what settles arguments at bars. It supplies answers for the information snippets you see on your Google or Bing search results. It's the first stop for nearly everyone doing online research.

New Yorkers love nonfiction, and that’s a fact. The bestselling memoir “Educated,” by first-time author Tara Westover, was the most read book throughout all New York Public Library’s 88 branches in…

Libraries are fighting Macmillan Publishers over an ebook embargo that would make borrowing new ebooks much harder for folks.

Library Commissioner Andrea Telli says hundreds of long-overdue books have been returned in the three weeks since Chicago became the nation’s largest major city to jump on the no-fine bandwagon.

Copies of a letter written by Christopher Columbus describing his first impressions of the Americas have become so rare and valuable, they're being stolen and replaced with forgeries at some of the world's most prestigious libraries

We asked experts for advice on storage and creating a cozy reading nook.

Tips and tricks from a library aide.

Chan has been an employee of the San Francisco Public Library for 21 years and worked at all 27 branches, doing everything from shelving books to feeding hungry teenagers to helping children write letters to their mothers and fathers in prison. A conversation with her reveals that while the city's libraries are "quiet" spaces, they may be where the city's heart beats the loudest.

Librarians say the company's update to Lynda.com learning tools is an unwelcome encroachment on patrons' rights.

As mental health services continue to be cut, librarians are becoming a lifeline for many, says author and library activist Dawn Finch

What can we learn when imagining the reading habits of beloved writers?

Hundreds of volumes in the library and bookshops of Herne Bay have had pages torn in half, but police remain baffled

A book borrowed from an Irish library has been returned more than 80 years after it was due to be taken back. The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson was borrowed on 23 July 1937 from Donegal County Library in the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht area of Gweedore. It was returned to Gweedore Public Library on 17 May.