With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

If libraries didn't already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity made available, ...

When Dianne Basso moved to Colorado in 2011 after years overseas, she couldn’t wait to get a library membership. A lifelong reader, Basso had been living in countries where English wasn’t the official ...

Hispanics feel strongly that libraries are important for their communities, just as most Americans do. But when it comes to specific library services, the Pew Research survey reveals that Hispanic ...

A city council leader has issued a "use it or lose it" message after confirming under-threat libraries will no longer close.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

The Main Library has holdings in excess of 100,000 print books, 15,000 DVDs & Blu-rays, 200 current magazine subscriptions, and 700 historical runs, 300,000 pictures and special collections including ...

The Montana State Library Commission voted 5-1 (with one abstention) in July 2023 to rescind its membership in the American Library Association because of the ALA’s then-president: a self-proclaimed ...