A book of poetry that survived the catastrophic 1906 earthquake and fire has been returned to the Mechanics’ Institute. By Adeel Hassan Faded ink stamps of the Mechanics’ Institute Library dot the ...

Inside a charred book, pages dotted in soot stains tell the story of how San Francisco rose to the epicenter of a gold rush. Barely escaping the 1906 earthquake, this book should’ve burned completely.

In 1951, not long after her breakthrough appearances in “All About Eve” and “The Asphalt Jungle,” Marilyn Monroe went to college: She enrolled in a pair of 10-week classes at UCLA’s adult-extension ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - There’s something new in Omaha’s new Central Library that might be the first of its kind in any public library in the country. That something new is attracting attention from ...

A Tennessee librarian is facing discipline after refusing to move more than 100 books from juvenile shelves in a Rutherford County library, saying the board did not following proper removal procedures ...

The State Library of North Carolina is now in a partnership with Wake County Libraries aimed at bridging the gap to make reading books more accessible to people with disabilities. “This partnership ...

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The Friends of the Erie County Library exceeded its funding goal in 2025. Last year, according to a Friends' winter newsletter, the nonprofit allocated more than $82,000 to fund the Erie County Public ...

Dimitris Economou returned this copy of Harry the Dirty Dog 36 years after his parents checked it out. Fairfax County Public Library Thirty-six years after it was checked out, a copy of Gene Zion’s ...

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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 ...