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Retiring incumbent Jesse White is widely regarded as having used his position to help libraries, readers, writers and lifelong learners.

People have been writing obituaries for libraries for decades. The May 2005 edition of MIT’s Technology Review ran a series of articles under the title “Death of Libraries: Myth and Facts.” Writing in the Guardian newspaper in December 2016, columnist Simon Jenkins compared libraries to churches and local railways: “People like having them around, and are angry if they close. But as for using them, well, there is so little time these days.”  Libraries are adapting to the digital age a...

Residents in the northern part of Cumberland County now have a convenient way to get books and other items from the library at the Godwin Town Hall.

The Beltrami County Historical Society recently announced that it has joined Museums for All.

Timothy Barber interned at the Black Archives as a Florida A&M graduate student in 2003. Now, hes the new director of the center and starts on July 1.

HANNIBAL — Emmy-award winning storyteller Bobby Norfolk brings a captivating storytelling performance to the Hannibal Free Public Library’s Oceans of Possibilities summer reading program, adding to an enormous slate of

The recent American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., saw a gathering of librarians and the companies that sell them tech products for their work, some of which provide a glimpse of the future.

Daniel H. Weiss, President of a href= http://www.metmuseum.org target= _blank The Metropolitan Museum of Art /a since 2015 and President and CEO s

In a later post, also on Facebook, Bisbikos wrote, “This was never about censorship and the First Selectman plays no role in what books are purchased or displayed in our library. I was merely attempting to be responsive to a concern coming from a parent in our town."