Growing up near Lake Merced, in a "small town" neighborhood in the southwest corner of the city where public space was sparse, Joanne Hayes-White spent five days a week at the Merced branch library.

A Merced County Library “sanitation station,” where all books returned to the library are disinfected before being returned to the shelves for further check-out. Photo Submitted by Amy Taylor Amy ...

Uniquely is a Merced Sun-Star series that covers the moments, landmarks and personalities that define what makes living in the Merced area so special. The Columbian mammoth once roamed through parts ...

MERCED -- If all goes as planned, the Merced County Library soon will add 2 million books, movies, CDs and tapes to its collection -- all without buying a thing. By summer, library officials are ...

Merced County residents who haven't visited a local library much in the past year say it's because of limited time and the availability of reading materials in other places. That's according to the ...

Behind the counter at the Merced County Library, Pamela Cornelison saw a lot of adults come up to ask, "Can you read this book to me because I forgot my glasses?" "People kept forgetting their glasses ...