A global pandemic and a national reckoning with race and social justice helped turn 2020 into a record year for digital lending in public libraries, according to OverDrive, the leading digital ...

On September 1, the Public Library Association (PLA) issued its 2020 Public Library Technology Survey report, detailing how libraries are further extending their technology services and resources in ...

We can reliably count on a major event to top this list each year. But nothing compares to the Covid-19 pandemic that has so far claimed some 300,000 American lives, and in March forced a historic ...

Four libraries earned this year’s American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects. Their projects included smartphone training for seniors, ...

In 2020, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library increased its global reach and found new ways of working with the UN community during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Our diverse Library activities, resources and ...

Everybody has coped with the pandemic differently, but many people are turning to books to escape lockdown boredom and stress. With library buildings closed to the public because of the coronavirus, ...

More Americans were challenging and seeking to ban books about racism and antiracism in 2020 than previous years, according to the American Library Association (ALA). The group's 2020 Top 10 Most ...

The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The move follows a copyright lawsuit from several large publishers The Emergency Library is part of the Open Libraries initiative, in ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Lenexa City Center Library wins a 2020 Capstone Award for ...

A few weeks ago, I learned of the existence of a book — a novel published nearly 25 years ago called “The Debt to Pleasure” — and decided, immediately, that I needed to own it. Various reviews and ...