Every year, libraries are asked to remove books from their shelves, because they are found to be inappropriate. These "challenges" can occur...

Across the country, guerrilla librarians are creating community-curated book lending systems.

Seattle's lost the Most Literate City in America crown. Is the rest of America losing the literacy battle?

Egypt's protesting millennials are multitasking: Saving the nation's precious cultural icons while simultaneously calling for a new government.

Money can't buy literacy.

At the new library in Surrey, British Columbia, people can "check out" experts on a topic of interest.

For Occupy Wall Street supporters, crushing a library felt like crushing the collective imagination.
With recent cuts in city and state funding, libraries are an increasingly endangered species. From Charlotte to Los Angeles (and lots of places...
The Online Computer Library Center says people get more DVDs from libraries than from Netflix. The Consumerist

Paging Eminem: Michigan just approved the insane plan to shut schools and raise class sizes in the Motor City to 60 students.

The company hired to liquidate Borders is donating more than 8,000 academic-quality texts to Chicago's schools.

The public library in Clinton, New York upcycled a classic British phone booth and turned it into a neighborhood branch.
We've been fans of Room to Read, the nonprofit founded by John Wood to build libraries in the developing world, for a long time. In the following...
Could a digital media lab in downtown Chicago be the library of the future?
A Massachusetts school's experiment in taking its library digital has been a rousing success

They'll remind you why you love the library, too.

Yesterday, L.A. voters (or a small percentage of them) decided whether the city should tax pot to fund parks, among other things. Here's a recap.