Local bookworms will no longer have to worry about remembering to bring their library cards when they visit their local branch thanks to a new app launched by Palo Alto City Library. The app, which ...

A Pew study released Thursday has some good news for America’s libraries—namely that Americans seem to love them—but perhaps even better news for library users. According to Pew, the more people are ...

At the American Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 23, three OCLC staffers gave a preview of the directions in which the nonprofit library cooperative’s discovery ...

It wouldn’t be a leap to theorize that the expanding role technology plays in American lives would lead to the demise of public libraries. After all, so many other industries, including the one that’s ...

Libraries are complicated. They have a maze of departments, a specific method for retrieving books, and many rooms with different purposes: public and staff areas, service desks, and storage areas for ...

Our December 2011 survey showed that 58% of Americans ages 16 and older said they had a library card. Women, whites, and parents of minor children are more likely to have library cards than other ...

In the Internet age, there’s been no shortage of talk about the future of libraries, and much speculation about where libraries fit in the increasingly digital-rich media market for American consumers ...

This page includes sample language for sharing your library user type quiz with your community or group, including sample language for email and social media sharing, an embeddable widget for your ...

Other titles, such as “Verity” and “It Ends with Us,” by Colleen Hoover, had some of the longest waiting lists – about 4,000 each – indicating that they could have easily made the list had there been ...

E-readers are more and more popular – but Australians are slow to take up the option of borrowing e-books from public libraries. Steve Walker, CC BY-ND What place do e-readers – and in particular ...

Wake County Public Libraries is writing the next chapter in its history with newly redesigned library cards, just in time for National Library Card Sign-up Month. The current bright yellow cards, used ...