The Friends of the Library book drop outside Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids will be out of commission for the forseeable future after being struck by a school bus Saturday. Amber Mussman, public ...

The book was due in November 1983, but didn't quite make it. Last Friday, librarians at the St. Louis Public Library’s Carondelet branch found a surprise in the book drop: A volume that had been ...

The school year is back in full swing for students and educators, and under a new law, every district is required to establish policies to ensure school libraries have a process in place for handling ...

Have you heard? The Library no longer needs to quarantine returned books and other items for 48-72 hours. This recent update to safety guidance for our industry means that we have been able to re-open ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Tuesday marks Oregon’s deadline to submit your ballot for the May 2025 Special Election. This election gives residents a chance to vote on who they want to represent them on a ...

A federal appeals court ruling will make it more difficult for library patrons to challenge book removal decisions, with the decision involving a public library in Texas but likely applying to school ...

Wide-ranging legislation filed Monday by North Carolina Republican lawmakers would make it easier to prosecute librarians on obscenity charges, restrict what books can be in school libraries and ...

Charlotte’s Web, the E.B. White children’s classic that is often a child’s first introduction to the deeper and intangible concepts of life, like the meaning of friendship and the sorrows of death, is ...

Republican legislators want to set up committee reviews of school library books to root out what they describe as “gross filth.” The bill passed its first House committee hearings on Tuesday.

State Rep. James Talarico’s favorite book includes nine sex scenes and a sexual assault and happens to be a Texas classic. If not the great Texas novel. So during a legislative debate about a bill ...

During the month of September, the Wyoming Free Library book drop box won’t judge you, and the librarians won’t charge you for overdue books. An annual tradition, library director John Roberts shares ...

Students explore Pine Hollow Middle School media center at the Raleigh school’s open house on July 7, 2016. Chris Cioffi [email protected] Wide-ranging legislation filed Monday by North ...