Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...

An Ohio man has drawn widespread backlash after he reportedly checked out and then burned 100 books on Jewish history, African American history and LGBTQ+ education. The man took the books from the ...

ROCHESTER — Rochester Public Schools Superintendent Kent Pekel has directed the removal of a book from an elementary school media center, despite a recommendation by a review committee in the district ...

ROCHESTER — The decision to pull a book from an elementary school library in Rochester marked the first time in at least 10 years that the district has removed a book because of its content. Rochester ...

Two Tennessee counties are moving to ban all transgender books from their county libraries, a move that First Amendment experts are pushing back on. Rutherford County passed a policy in March ordering ...

Reader question: I was shocked to find out that not all of the Fox Cities libraries are in the same sharing network. The Appleton library is part of the Outagamie Waupaca Library System, and the ...

The Ferguson Library is collecting gently used books and other media during a Book Donation Day on Saturday, Jan. 3, at the ...

A popular book for preteens about puberty and sexual health is the target of a Charleston County School Board member, calling it "pornographic" and demanding that the county's public library keep the ...

Here's a look at what was popular for library patrons in books, movies, and things on offer at local public libraries.

With the internet putting a seemingly infinite supply of answers, arguments, and amusements at our fingertips, do we still need libraries? The question isn’t as rhetorical as it once seemed. As shown ...

Between novels like Kristin Hannah’s “The Women” and nonfiction like Mel Robbins’ “The Let Them Theory,” library books ...

The NLPL has also recommitted to free mailing for the blind through its Literature for the Blind program, which has been ...