NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Washington – The American Library Association (ALA) endorsed bicameral and bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue providing passport acceptance services.

There are few things better than curling up in a comfy corner of your house with a good book. While most of us don’t have the square footage for full-blown, distinct libraries in our houses, there are ...

It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...

From Connecticut to Cairo, reading spots that will seem like paradise to book- and design-lovers alike. In the library of Bayt Yakan, a Cairo building renovated by the architectural conservator Alaa ...

"I shouldn't be surprised, but I kind of was, that The Women was No. 1 yet again," says Harold Escalante, the assistant director of collections and access for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in ...

In the late 1990s, primary school teacher Antonio La Cava grew alarmed that students in his home region of Basilicata, in southern Italy, felt no connection with the books that had shaped his own ...

As book banning becomes normalized, attacks on public and school libraries continue to escalate nationwide. The past few years have seen an unprecedented rise in challenges and removals of library ...

In partnership with the Vermont Research Open Source Program Office (VERSO), the Graduate College ...

In many parts of the world, remoteness is not only defined by distance. It may describe a mountain settlement far from infrastructure or an urban and suburban neighborhood on the margins of visibility ...

After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of shelf-ready library books, will be closing in early January. They’re far from a household name, but if you’ve ever held a library book — ...