Four Dallas Public Library branches could be on the chopping block this year. The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the Buckner Terrace neighborhood, the Renner Frankford Branch in Far North ...

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 ...

Rob Simmons estimates that, over the last decade, Oak Park Public Library employees have helped save the lives of about 20 people who overdosed on opioids. In some cases staff members saw that a ...

This year’s library news featured as many plot twists and cliffhangers as a Dan Brown novel. Federal funding, the freedom to read, perpetual or temporary access to print and digital collections, and ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

Jasmine Bond spends her weekdays working two libraries in one room that are separated by a movable partition wall. On one side, the Phoenix Public Library director teaches up to 10 classes of Coolidge ...

These nonprofit libraries function similarly to municipally run libraries, often receiving substantial local funding. While some independent libraries remain, others have been integrated into ...

For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on ...

Libraries have long been known as a place for shushing, where quiet was not only encouraged but enforced. But times have changed, and many libraries around the country are attempting to reinvent ...

I got tired of searching for parts if I needed a stupid simple header for a design in Altium, so I made a library with a bunch of them. The initial release of this library is single spaced, 2.54mm pin ...

Some libraries aren't just places to borrow books — they're destinations with deep history and architecture that tell stories beyond the pages. The 1000 Libraries Awards 2025 highlights some of the ...

CROFTON, MD ‒ Claire Holahan, 34, takes her toddler to the library once or twice a week for story time so she can play with other children and the library's toys. It's not until after bedtime that she ...