Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

COOK — Every fall, libraries across the U.S. take part in a weeklong advocacy campaign known as Banned Book Week. Aimed at raising awareness about censorship and challenged books, participating ...

An October directive by the Tennessee Secretary of State requiring a full audit of 181 public libraries' juvenile books within 60 days to fit federal standards on gender focuses on one book. Some 181 ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...

The White Center Library Guild will host a two-day Book Sale and Holiday Bazaar Friday, Nov. 21 and Saturday, Nov. 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the White Center Library. The event will be held at the ...

PADUCAH — Readers can shop thousands of books at bargain prices at the fall Friends of the Library Book Sale starting on Friday. Volunteer Claire Trammell — a junior in high school — helped with setup ...

Pearland school board members knew they couldn't personally vet hundreds of books for “indecent” or “profane” content prohibited under a new state law. So when they met this fall to consider a ...

NEWPORT NEWS — Cookbooks, Bibles, bestsellers, and even a guide to belly dancing were among the roughly 150 books mixed in with trash next to a Main Street Library dumpster Friday morning. According ...

FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A former Wyoming library director who was fired amid an uproar over books with sexual content and LGBTQ+ themes that some people complained were inappropriate for youngsters ...

County officials in Wyoming fired Terri Lesley, a library director, after she refused to purge children and young adult books that contained sexual content and L.G.B.T.Q. themes. By Adeel Hassan A ...

The Chicago Public Library on Wednesday announced Xochitl Gonzalez’s debut novel “Olga Dies Dreaming” is this year’s citywide reading program selection. The One Book, One Chicago program, celebrating ...

STEPFATHER WERE INDICTED FOR HIS DEATH. THE SHELBYVILLE COMMUNITY IS COMING TOGETHER TO SUPPORT THE LOCAL LIBRARY AFTER CERTAIN BOOKS WERE CHECKED OUT AND NEVER RETURNED. WLKY’S DEANDRIA TURNER ...