For those who grew up on Ramona Quimby books, Northeast Portland is a living monument to the imp of Klickitat Street and her ...

The new West Las Vegas Library on North Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard is drawing heavy demand since opening at the end of last year.

The Library of Congress’ National Screening Room is a massive online repository that puts cinema’s most influential films at ...

Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance. The cover of a U.S.

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 ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A library in rural Alaska needed help providing free Wi-Fi ...

After the threats to federal library funding in the past year, the fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills signed by President Trump on February 3 included an increase in federal funding for ...

DALLAS — Four more Dallas Public Library branches could close as early as this fall under a cost-saving proposal that would reshape the city’s library system. The plan would shift the library to a ...

When out on a walk, it can be easy to have blinders on. Maybe you’re talking on the phone or listening to an audiobook or podcast. Maybe you’ve simply got your head in the clouds. A reminder to be ...

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 ...

Erin Dummeyer: Most people were telling me that libraries were going to become obsolete. Scott Brill: Yes! ED: And we just have Google now. They really didn’t realize that’s an incredibly rude thing ...