Last year, Tamara Eshleman donated a $300 espresso machine to a raffle fundraiser for Adamstown Public Library. Sure, it was a good cause, but part of that cause included her own job. Like most ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Public Library announced a new partnership that automatically registers more than 315,000 Chicago Public School students for the city's libraries. CPS and CPL ...

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What can't your library card do? You can use it to check out books, ebooks, music and movies, of course; use computers, printers and copiers for free; "borrow" a mobile hotspot to get online; and ...

Your local library may no longer offer passport application processing thanks to an order from the State Department. According to the Associated Press, the department ordered certain non-profit public ...

Nearly half of the databases that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention used to update regularly — surveillance systems that tracked public health information like Covid vaccination rates and ...

Public libraries have long been pillars of community access and learning. Today, many libraries’ roles are expanding beyond books and media to include nontraditional resources through the growing ...

In 1938, as concerns of censorship rose worldwide, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the "Library Bill of Rights." The first tenet states: "Books ...

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