SANTA CLARITA, Calif. A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system ...

One current trend in library technology aims to improve the engagement of patrons with libraries or to provide tools to help users work more effectively. In many respects, the technologies on display ...

Library lending is increasingly going digital. And that global expansion of technology-based borrowing is being led by library systems serving Seattle and surrounding King County. This new series by ...

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson and the head of The Seattle Public Library system are laying out their vision for a new $410 ...

While libraries have been around for centuries, the idea of lending a book out to a reader wasn't put into practice until Ben Franklin helped create the first library system in America. That was a ...

With its prideful lions and decadent Beaux-Arts beauty, it’s easy to identify The New York Public Library as the library of New York City. While the grandiosity of the NYPL system cannot be denied, it ...

The Jackson/Hinds Library System requested $4.2 million for the 2026 fiscal year, primarily for salaries and benefits. The system aims to modernize facilities, potentially reopening closed branches, ...