The La Mesa Branch Library recently received a book that was 40 years overdue, with no late fees, and the staff is hoping the ...

In a meeting fraught with crosstalk and tension, the Alabama Public Library Service board voted to withhold state funding to ...

Emily Austin's "Is This a Cry For Help?" chronicles grief, love and some of the strangest (and most wholesome) things she's ...

Dimitris Economou was visiting his parents in Greece and looking for a book to read to his 7-year-old son when he found a ...

If readers could stack every book borrowed across all Central and Western Massachusetts libraries last year, it would reach ...

The Columbia Public Library launched its county-wide bookmobile in the 1930s. The two forces behind it were Lucy Hampton ...

Seattle Public Library (SPL) is the only U.S. library system that makes its anonymized, granular checkout data public. Want ...

Responses to an essay by Roger Rosenblatt about keeping and tossing old books. Also: A.I. and human identity; new heights for ...

Greenville County Library patrons read graphic novels, comics, thrillers, mysteries and historical fiction, as well as ...

What does reading provide, and what are its perils? These recent memoirs and books about reading dive into this question in ...

Cuyahoga County Public Library librarians noticed children’s titles dominated 2025’s most borrowed books list.

Popular genres for Alabama public libraries this year included romance, historical fiction, thrillers, fantasy and science fiction.