At the turn of the 20th century, the steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $5.2 million to New York to build libraries across the city. Leading architects of the time designed the ...
A woman named Norma Jean Warner left her estate to hundreds of small-town Iowa libraries and senior centers. Warner, who lived a modest life, directed her savings to be distributed directly to various ...
The U.S. State Department has ordered a subset of public libraries across the country to stop processing passport applications. In many communities, this new mandate disrupts a service that people ...
NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...
NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...
Pennsylvania Reps. Madeleine Dean and John Joyce have proposed bipartisan legislation that would allow nonprofit public libraries to continue to serve as passport acceptance. The cover of a U.S.
Because our libraries are stunning again. Northwest Portland Multnomah County Library (Bob Kerns) Set aside the fact that there are 19 library branches where any resident of Multnomah County can check ...
It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...
Erin Dummeyer: Most people were telling me that libraries were going to become obsolete. Scott Brill: Yes! ED: And we just have Google now. They really didn’t realize that’s an incredibly rude thing ...
Facing a $300 million shortfall, MIT is tightening its budget by slashing the quietest corners of its Cambridge campus: the libraries. Three of MIT’s five physical libraries will be shuttered or ...
When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...