Security teams chose to pro-actively shut down the servers rather than leave systems vulnerable, a decision that chief executive officer Sarah Meilleur credits with saving the library%u2019s ...

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it “These books that have huge price tags are given impossible expectations to ...

Yes, you’ll want to clear your calendar for Satuday February 18 for an afternoon of riveting viewing on C-Span 2’s BookTV. FOCL submitted information about the ALA President’s program featuring the ...

The director of the Pickens County Library in South Carolina cancelled the youth summer reading program entitled “You Never Know at Your Library” after the minister of a local church complained and ...

“Libraries aren’t there to enforce a curriculum: they exist for the whole community to learn and create on their own terms. That’s what makes this comic maker project special: it’s meant to open the ...

George sent over a Link To American Libraries and their interview with Laura Bush. There’s also a video and a transcript. Q.: I have one final question for you, and that’s about the future. What comes ...

The Library of Congress has notified lawmakers of a “cyber breach” of its IT system by an adversary, a hack of emails between some congressional offices and library staff, according to an email ...

The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era. But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public. By the time the last Encyclopaedia ...

Unlike the ostensible celebration of freedom and (frankly) the booksellers’ marketing opportunity associated with promoting “banned” books, First Amendment Week would invite students to think actively ...

The 23,600 volumes he accumulated between the 1970s and his arrest in March of 1990 were all stashed in his 17-room home — wall to wall, floor to ceiling, in hallways, closets and bathrooms. But the ...

They have trouble making decisions. They would rather hike in the Himalayas than climb a corporate ladder. They have few heroes, no anthems, no style to call their own. They crave entertainment, but ...

As conservative parents, educators, and politicians spread the book-banning movement across the nation, Utah has quickly arisen as one of the most dystopian states when it comes to the right to read.