The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

It’s a dangerous moment for a society when the very places that should be sources of ideas and community are held hostage by nameless individuals.

U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan, whose National Archives and Records Administration operates presidential libraries, talks about the library in an exclusive Sun-Times interview.

The Scottish Government has pledged additional funding on projects which promote equality, diversity and inclusion.

“Information wants to be free” – but at what cost?

Georgia’s second-largest school district says it has removed two books from 20 school libraries, saying the books had “highly inappropriate, sexually explicit content.”

Ordered to remove unsuitable books from their libraries, school administrators in Iowa outsourced the job to AI. So long, The Color Purple, Beloved, The Handmaid’s Tale, writes Arwa Mahdawi

Payyanur Municipality has become the first in the State to have libraries in all its wards, thanks to the efforts of its people's representatives, volunteers, Kudumbashree, Haritha Karma Sena, and Library Council. The municipality, with 63 libraries, has provided books to newly established libraries in tribal and backward areas.

As the extremist group Moms for Liberty flourishes in Clay county, a campaign of outrage has books disappearing from school shelves

Panicker helped establish 5,623 libraries across the State. He died in 1995 and the State government designated June 19 as Reading Day

West Texas residents are organizing over their love — or concern — for books. Meanwhile, from Lubbock to Midland and Odessa, librarians are trying to reaffirm libraries’ role as community hubs.

As some states ban or restrict certain books in schools and libraries, Vermont’s lieutenant governor is on a statewide banned book reading tour, highlighting what he calls the importance of representation, free speech, open dialogue and exchange of ideas