The Iowa Senate State Government subcommittee considers a bill that would restrict state funding for public libraries that ...

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If you’re like me and love listening to audiobooks, and you’re always looking for clever ways to read books for free, then you should know about this Spotify steal I recently heard about. The digital ...

When the president unexpectedly fired the librarian of Congress, a prominent legislator denounced the “open despotism which now rules at Washington.” The year was 1829, and as Andrew Jackson installed ...

I've been using Spotify for so long, even before YouTube Music was a thing. Now, I want to switch to YouTube Music, but after building a massive library on Spotify, it’s not easy to recreate all those ...

Mr. Bannon is the chief librarian at the New York Public Library, where he is also director of branch libraries and education. Nov. 23, 2025 As a librarian, I get a lot of questions. One I am hearing ...

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant ...

If you’re still paying full price for audiobooks while you’re in uniform, you’re probably leaving money on the table. Between public libraries, free apps, and the DoD’s own digital library, you can ...

The books come from its list of best titles of the year and will be available at three flagship library branches. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out why the New York ...

If the library system in the Canadian city of Hamilton, Ontario, handed out fines for overdue books, the one for a recently returned tome titled “The Excellent Woman” would be a whopper. The Victorian ...