The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

Building blocks of everyday life, from the NHS to roads to libraries, have been eroded by Tory underinvestment

Libraries want to encourage - not deter- community members.

Worldwide Pride Month events are underway but they are coming at a time when many people who identify as LGBTQ+ say they are facing increasing difficulties at work, ranging from being repeatedly misgendered to physically assaulted

The Oklahoma State Supreme Court has rejected the state Board of Education's attempt to determine what books are available in public school libraries

Attorneys for LGBTQ+ youth, teachers and major publishers have asked a federal appeals court to affirm a lower court order that blocked key parts of an Iowa law banning books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms

As an expert in German and translation, I was pleased to see Jenny Erpenbeck’s novel Kairos win the International Booker Prize 2024, one of the most prominent celebrations of translated literature in the UK. The prize is awarded for a book, and to the people who wrote it: in this…

Conservative-dominated court restores books to school libraries in case spurred by titles containing ‘butt’ and ‘fart’

As Cutler and Gross upsize to a new store on New York’s Mercer Street, we speak to designers Chris Leong and Dominic Leong of New York-based architecture firm Leong Leong about the space, which was inspired by ’archival libraries and reading rooms’

Dr Kate Grarock joined in the fun of National Simultaneous Storytime.