As libraries work to upgrade and diversify offerings in the digital age, many have to carefully navigate publisher ...

Baker and Taylor is one of very few companies that do book-distribution for libraries — companies that act as the middle man between libraries and publishers. But a few months ago, the company ...

The audit’s findings are based on a nationally representative survey of about 16,400 public libraries across all 50 states, ...

Libraries have been around for nearly 5,000 years, and sometimes it seems like they haven’t changed much since, at least in the public imagination. You know: hushed, slightly musty spaces smelling of ...

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 ...

Most Americans view public libraries as important parts of their communities, with a majority reporting that libraries have the resources they need and play at least some role in helping them decide ...

Librarian Chris Jones remembers being warned in the late 1980s — just as the internet was emerging — that libraries would be "dead in five years". But despite advances in technology and the emergence ...

There is little question that public libraries today are a vital institution—a point being driven home in cruel fashion as libraries around the country are forced to close in an effort to blunt the ...

Public libraries across Chenango, Oneida, and Madison counties are receiving state funding for significant upgrades.

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system ...