ICM 2026 Philadelphia opens Thursday at the Pennsylvania Convention Center with the Fields Medal ceremony likely already ...

Illinois Secretary of State and State Librarian Alexi Giannoulias is awarding more than $27 million in grants to libraries across the state, his office announced in a news release Tuesday. Giannoulias ...

A strong sense of place can deeply influence a story, and in some cases, the setting can even feel like a character itself. But as it’s summer here in the Northern Hemisphere and travel adventures ...

No question is more likely than the following to provoke a donnybrook among academic librarians: Should every or even most librarians possess a master of library and information science (M.L.I.S. or M ...

As the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center approaches and renderings of a future Donald Trump presidential library circulate, presidential libraries are back in the news — raising a ...

Connecticut’s public libraries are thriving, according to two new reports from the state library. Libraries throughout the state have seen increases in audio downloads, non-library community meetings ...

After touting the importance of libraries as a candidate, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is following in the footsteps of his predecessor by proposing budget cuts that could force service reductions at branches ...

The U.S. State Department has ordered a subset of public libraries across the country to stop processing passport applications. In many communities, this new mandate disrupts a service that people ...

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance. The cover of a U.S.

After the threats to federal library funding in the past year, the fiscal year (FY) 2026 appropriations bills signed by President Trump on February 3 included an increase in federal funding for ...