A new ranking by the American Library Association (ALA) lists the 11 books that people or activists tried to have removed ...

UPI is marking Thursday's World Book Day by looking back at Odd News stories of overdue library books that were returned more ...

To create this list, a committee of nearly two dozen librarians performed what Chief Librarian Edwin Maxwell calls ...

The ALA says 4,235 titles were challenged at U.S. libraries — the second-highest year on record. Forty percent of the ...

Philly residents checked out all kinds of books from the Free Library this past year — but one twisty, time-jumping mystery drew the most readers. "James" by Percival Everett, the Pultizer-winning ...

Dimitris Economou returned this copy of Harry the Dirty Dog 36 years after his parents checked it out. Fairfax County Public Library Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s ...

On April 24, 1800, President John Adams founded the Library of Congress. Today it holds over 170 million items and remains ...

The board members of an Alabama library at the center of a culture war over the placement of so-called ‘sexually explicit’ content announced Monday they will not reshelve two books that were ...

If you survived the end of the world, would you want to be reading something funny to lighten the load or something bit more ...

The move expands an initiative between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Public Library that aims to make it easier for students to get resources at all of the city’s public libraries.

Whether a book is a few weeks or 40 years late, Omaha Public Library does not charge late fees.

When most people think of the public library, they think of books, movies and quiet corners to read. Increasingly, Rowan Public Library is also a place to support your health […] ...