URBANA — The Urbana Free Library board president said on Thursday that much of the weeding that occurred in the adult nonfiction section was defensible, and it actually resumed after library patrons ...

BERKELEY — You can learn to make a zombie, find facts about Nauru or study jazz history at Berkeley’s well-loved libraries, but when it comes to getting information about the library itself you may ...

This early separation agreement comes after last month’s special board meeting when dozens of Urbana residents spoke to the board about their disagreement with the rapid and extensive book weeding ...

The weeding will resume, but "with caution," said Lissak, who admitted that speeding up the process did not help matters. The weeding started in December but picked up steam recently in anticipation ...

Libraries across the country are seeing a shift-- more visitors but fewer books. As more books are being turned into digital copies, libraries at colleges like the University of Vermont are cleaning ...

Several Escondido residents turned out at a meeting of the city’s Library Board of Trustees Thursday to air their concerns about the library’s policy of considering whether to remove books from its ...

A group of retired librarians and community members gathered at Berkeley Public Library’s central branch Wednesday evening preceding a Board of Library Trustees meeting to protest increased ...

The fact that Theatre Winter Haven will be producing "Oklahoma" in February reminds me of one of my favorite songs from the production, which could be the theme song for our library for the next ...

There is an art to every profession, and librarianship is no exception. Part of a library’s responsibility to its community is to cultivate a book collection. Berkeley is an especially diverse, ...

Ruth Ketchum often uses gardening gloves when she weeds books at Chicago’s Sulzer Regional Library. “The books dry out your skin,” she explained. One afternoon last week, she went through several ...

BERKELEY — You can learn to make a zombie, find facts about Nauru or study jazz history at Berkeley”s well-loved libraries, but when it comes to getting information about the library itself you may ...