Lack of financial resources, staff capacity challenges and maintaining existing staffing levels are the top three constraints on libraries’ ability to make desired changes, according to Ithaka S+R’s ...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is turning the page on a plan that would have cut funding to New York City libraries. Under the executive budget unveiled on Tuesday, Mamdani will add an additional $31.7 million ...

At the turn of the 20th century, the steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2 million to New York to build libraries across the city. Leading architects of the time designed the ...

After touting the importance of libraries as a candidate, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is following in the footsteps of his predecessor by proposing budget cuts that could force service reductions at branches ...

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Because our libraries are stunning again. Northwest Portland Multnomah County Library (Bob Kerns) Set aside the fact that there are 19 library branches where any resident of Multnomah County can check ...

It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...

Erin Dummeyer: Most people were telling me that libraries were going to become obsolete. Scott Brill: Yes! ED: And we just have Google now. They really didn’t realize that’s an incredibly rude thing ...

Tucked within the hilltop campus of the University of Coimbra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Biblioteca Joanina is a baroque jewel of European academia. Commissioned by King João V in the 18th ...

Facing a $300 million shortfall, MIT is tightening its budget by slashing the quietest corners of its Cambridge campus: the libraries. Three of MIT’s five physical libraries will be shuttered or ...

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...

Library visits in the United States have almost halved over the past decade. But in Australia, they’re up 10% compared to a year ago, according to a new report. In fact, our public libraries are ...