The Latest Breaking News from Libraries

Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport committee report says libraries are ‘an important part of a community’s infrastructure’

The council plans to use its libraries too as warm hubs though sites are still to be confirmed.

Changes include library space being rented out to people as part of a 'co-working hub'

Growing up in the 1980s, the name Stephen King was synonymous with macabre, terrifying, apparently taboo (though ubiquitous) book covers. They seemed to appear everywhere: bookstores, to be sure; but also newsagents, supermarkets, cinemas, airports and libraries. They always seemed to be spinning in some library carousel, looking tattered, like…

The United Nations is using before-and-after satellite imagery to monitor the cultural destruction inflicted by Russia's war in Ukraine, announcing Wednesday it will launch its tracking platform publicly within weeks. The UN's culture agency UNESCO said it had verified damage to 207 cultural sites in Ukraine since the Russian invasion…

Wirral Council decided to close nine libraries earlier this year, seven of which were subject to bids to be taken over by their local communities

Service says the move is aimed at encourage the return of borrowers who stopped using the library during the Covid pandemic

Writer and LGBTQ activist George M. Johnson spoke with Morning Edition about what's lost when books like their 2020 memoir All Boys Aren't Blue are banned from school libraries.

So far at least 216 warm banks have been opened by councils across the country in libraries, leisure centres and church halls as people face mounting heating costs.