The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

Building blocks of everyday life, from the NHS to roads to libraries, have been eroded by Tory underinvestment

Libraries want to encourage - not deter- community members.

Letters: Readers respond to a long read on how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books to local communities

This direct API integration streamlines how vast content libraries are captioned and localized, while reducing the costs required to serve the needs of global audiences

The long read: In 2024, libraries are unofficial creches, homeless shelters, language schools and asylum support providers – filling the gaps left by a state that has reneged on its responsibilities

Those who help bring books to life will receive millions in government support to compensate for losses incurred when their works are borrowed from libraries.

Worldwide Pride Month events are underway but they are coming at a time when many people who identify as LGBTQ+ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted

The Oklahoma State Supreme Court has rejected the state Board of Education's attempt to determine what books are available in public school libraries

Attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers have asked a federal appeals court to affirm a lower court order that blocked key parts of an Iowa law banning books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms

As an expert in German and translation, I was pleased to see Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos win the International Booker Prize 2024, one of the most prominent celebrations of translated literature in the UK. The prize is awarded for a book, and to the people who wrote it: in this…

Conservative-dominated court restores books to school libraries in case spurred by titles containing ‘butt’ and ‘fart’