Some libraries just house books, while others are an architectural majesty with the most impressive bibliography to surround yourself with while you study, work, or write that novel. There are many ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Public libraries across central Iowa have launched the Central Iowa Libraries Map, a collaborative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa librarians are pushing back on multiple Republican-led bills that they say would take away local control from public ...

On a frigid Monday afternoon, down the streets of the Peninsula neighborhood in Iowa City, a boxy blue bus filled wall to wall with stacks of books sat parked against a curb. As biting winds tore ...

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DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa cannot, for now, continue to enforce part of its book ban law, a federal judge said Tuesday, giving major publishers that sued the state the second temporary reprieve they ...

DES MOINES — Library officials warned Thursday that proposed state legislation would undermine their ability to provide literature and programming, while supporters of the legislation argued it simply ...

Two pieces of state legislation recently introduced in Iowa challenge the state’s obscenity code related to libraries and schools and threaten libraries with civil action related to allegedly obscene ...