The Richland Public Library has checked in a book that was due 63 years, 11 months and 1 day ago. But despite the extreme tardiness, there will be no fine, the library assured in a Facebook post. That ...

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Police escort 2 men upset by library board chairman's book-banning list Public speaker weeps after meeting Book issues tied to President Trump executive order, 'not a law' Editor's note: This story ...

Abstract: Assigning library classification codes improves shelving and browse-ability but remains time-consuming and inconsistent across institutions. This paper presents an AI-based method to predict ...

Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s Harry the Dirty Dog made its way back to the Chantilly Regional Library in Virginia. Dimitris Economou found the book while visiting ...

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," ...

LA MESA, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — In early January, the La Mesa branch of the San Diego County Library received a book that was long overdue…by more than four decades. “It was me, so I got to open it and ...

Did you resolve to read more books in 2026? We’ve got some inspiration: Now that 2025 is in the books, so to speak, local library systems are sharing their most borrowed titles of last year—which are ...

Massachusetts Democrats are leading a pushback against what they call "politically motivated book bans" with a bill that would set new rules for challenging books in school and public libraries. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a Texas county’s removal of 17 books from its public libraries, leaving in place a lower court ruling that allowed the purge. The books ...