An accident which saw a woman trip and fall outside a hospital led to her death, a coroner has found. Lorna Loxton, a former auxiliary nurse, lived with myotonic dystrophy, a genetic disorder which ...

Fourteen million — that’s how many digital checkouts the Toronto Public Library logged last year. It’s a record number for the library, whose e-readership has been steadily increasing year after year.

New Year's Day commemorates the passing of time and the start of a new chapter, so it is fitting that the same day also presents an opportunity to breathe new life into thousands of creative works ...

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The newly remodeled Astoria Public Library opens to the public Saturday as its $10.4 million renovation, which began in fall 2024, has drawn to a successful close. At 1 p.m. Saturday, a ribbon-cutting ...

Nearly the entire third floor of the McKim Building has been closed off for a decade or more. Now, there is a push to renovate it and open it back up to the public. (Video by Raphael Chinca/Globe ...

A man sleeps outside of the Dallas Public Library on July 21. The library system is planning to close five locations over the next two years to save money. Dallas is set to close five branch libraries ...

Massachusetts is drenched in history. You can't go much of anywhere in the commonwealth without running into America's first something or other. But not all firsts are created equal. Some are endowed ...

The new PBS Independent Lens documentary about America's public library system arrives with a very clever, two-edged title: Free for All: The Public Library. The "Free for All" part refers, of course, ...

With the internet putting a seemingly infinite supply of answers, arguments, and amusements at our fingertips, do we still need libraries? The question isn’t as rhetorical as it once seemed. As shown ...

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The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...