After parents in a rural and staunchly conservative Wyoming county joined nationwide pressure on librarians to pull books they considered harmful to youngsters, the local library board obliged with ...

E-book lending surged during the pandemic and has continued to climb, but restrictive licensing rules mean libraries are ...

You've probably seen those free book boxes around town where you can take a book or leave one, or maybe a CD by BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Many of them are associated with a nonprofit ...

There's a new (and easy) way to share banned books in your community. Here's what to know, according to someone who fights book bans across the country. It started as a random act of kindness: ...

Little Free Library, the St. Paul, Minn.–based nonprofit organization, has partnered with the American Library Association and PEN America to produce an interactive map in response to the nationwide ...

If the e-book app on your phone or tablet is overflowing and full of outdated files, use these tools to tidy it up. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer has been reading e-books on gadgets since 2005 ...

There were nearly 700 attempts to ban library books in the first eight months of 2023, according to data released Tuesday by the American Library Association. From Jan. 1 to Aug 31, the attempts ...

As the culture wars continue to roil American society, one battlefront has turned out to be local libraries. The American Library Association reported more than 9,000 challenges to library books were ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — Give a book (or another piece of physical media) a second life during the Friends of the Library 2025 book sale series. Friends of the Library, a non-profit that promotes the Toledo ...

Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. A bill that would give parents more power over which books their children can read in public school libraries will soon go before Texas ...

The public library in Fairhope, Alabama — a picturesque city on the shores of Mobile Bay — has found itself in the crosshairs of battles over library content. The Alabama Public Library Service Board ...