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Byline: Saeb Rawashdeh Jan. 25AMMAN Last week, the National Library organised a launch of a new book by Professor Emeritus Zeidan Kafafi, a former president of Yarmouk University and a [...]

SINGAPORE, Jan. 6 -- Members of Singapore's literary community have reportedly urged the National Library Board (NLB) to exercise caution in using generative artificial intelligence (AI), warning of potential harm [...]

DALLAS: UWorld has issued the following news release: Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC - Masdar, the UAE's clean energy leader - has announced that it has significantly increased its [...]

Byline: KAREN BUTLER Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The U.S. Library of Congress announced Tuesday that Dirty Dancing, Beverly Hills Cop and The Social Network have been enshrined on the National [...]

Prague, Oct 23 (CTK) - Three mobile workplaces for the protection of book culture will help save the cultural heritage of Ukraine under the memorandum of mutual cooperation and a [...]

Byline: Daniel Kool Oct. 11The Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation awarded Portland Public Schools $25,000 to stock its middle school libraries enough to add hundreds of new books to each [...]

Byline: Scott Hagerman Daviess Fiscal Court appointed former Daviess County Judge-Executive Al Mattingly to the open seat on the Daviess County Public Library board during its meeting Monday at Blandford [...]

Byline: Zach Scott (WBBH) -- Click here for updates on this story FLORIDA (WBBH) -- Florida education leaders are pushing back against a lawsuit from major publishers and authors over [...]

Byline: Sydney Bishop and Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) -- (CNN) — Jen Miller doesn't run a typical school library. There's no scolding kids for turning in books late or shushing [...]

Byline: Kristen A. Graham Aug. 14Certified school librarians have become an endangered species in the Philadelphia School District: Systemwide, there were the equivalent of just two full-time librarians last year [...]

Byline: Gillian Graham Aug. 12The delivery service that moves library materials across Maine will resume Sept. 3, months after it was suspended because of a contract dispute. Libraries were notified [...]

MINSK, August 28, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Chinese Book Center at the National Library of Belarus was established in Minsk on Wednesday. Valery Gromada, first deputy minister of [...]

LANZHOU, August 27, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Dunhuang studies research library, an online database compiling global research findings and first-hand information related to Dunhuang studies, was launched on [...]

SAN FRANCISCO: GENDER CONFIRMATION CENTER has issued the following news release: The Gender Confirmation Center, a pioneering healthcare practice specializing in surgical transitions for transgender individuals, proudly announces the inclusion [...]

SOFIA, July 26, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Bulgarian National Library inaugurated a Chinese Book Corner on Friday, aiming to acquaint more Bulgarians with Chinese literature and culture. Chinese [...]

BEIJING, June 5, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The second China-Russia Library Forum, themed on the application of artificial intelligence in libraries, concluded in Beijing on Wednesday. In-depth exchanges and [...]

COLLINS English Dictionary defines a school library as 'a library within a school where teachers and students can access books and other resources. In other words, a school is an [...]

Byline: Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY From a misfit reindeer to a dancing queen, the audio selections chosen for entry into the National Recording Registry of The Library of Congress this [...]

Byline: Livia Albeck-Ripka and Aimee Ortiz The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs. Streaming services have transformed the way we view [...]

The neighborhood lending libraries have popped up around North America, offering a nostalgic return to DVDs. Streaming services have transformed the way we view film and television, leaving us isolated [...]

Byline: Debbie Kelley Mar. 19After temporarily closing on Feb. 1 to start a year-long renovation project, Penrose Library in downtown Colorado Springs will reopen to the public on April 10. [...]

Byline: Ethan Croft IT'S the most fashionable place to read in Britain, but is the London Library getting too popular for its own good? Members at the venerable St James's [...]

ULAN BATOR, May 27, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- A commissioning ceremony for the new building of the National Library of Mongolia was held here on Monday. After 73 years, [...]

BOSTON: BCC Research LLC has issued the following news release: In today's fast-paced business environment, access to reliable data is critical to making informed decisions and gaining a competitive advantage. [...]

BEIJING, May 5, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The National Library of China (NLC) has started collecting representative works from the country's major documentary directors, the library announced at a [...]

SHENZHEN, China: X Foundation has issued the following news release: Supported by the X Foundation ('the Foundation'), the first rural school library in Xunwu County in China's southeastern Jiangxi Province, [...]

Byline: David Harsanyi There's no such thing as a 'banned book' in the United States. Now, this would surely come as a great surprise to consumers of mainstream media, where [...]

JERUSALEM and LOS ANGELES: USC Shoah Foundation has issued the following news release: The USC Shoah Foundation has partnered with the National Library of Israel to provide Israelis with the [...]

Byline: Theresa Vargas A fourth-grade girl with Velcro straps on her pink and white tennis shoes wishes her school library had enough books to ensure that when she finishes reading [...]

Byline: IAN LEWIS Reporter ian.lewis@walesonline.co.uk CARMARTHEN'S time in the headlines on TV and radio news over the years was explored at a special evening at the town library. BBC Radio [...]

Byline: Jenny Gross Britain's national library made the first major steps in its recovery process after a ransomware group took down its website and online catalog. The British Library on [...]

A federal judge in (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/iowa) Iowa has temporarily blocked a state law (https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/book-ban) banning books with sexual content from school libraries, noting that there is no evidence such books caused [...]

Prague, Dec 28 (CTK) - Students, teachers, researchers and the general public will be able to use older digitised Czech publications free of charge for another three years on the [...]

Before Oct. 7, Hana Cooper downloaded everything from daily news reports to rabbinic blog posts, saving them for posterity in the Israeli National Library's archive of the Israeli internet and [...]

Byline: David C.L. Bauer Dec. 18Several west-central Illinois school libraries are among those sharing in $1.4 million in grants statewide. Funds will support school library services for 1.2 million students [...]

Byline: Samir Knox Nov. 7CHEYENNE In the week since Wyoming's top education official unveiled statewide guidance for addressing sexual content in school library books, multiple local interest groups have shared [...]

How books became the What makes a scary book scary? Monsters? Murder? Creepy talking dolls? Those might be your answers, but for some adults, it's a different type of book [...]

Byline: By, Owen Younger A Newcastle primary school opened a new library with the help of a famous author. North Fawdon Primary School opened the new library with hundreds of [...]

Byline: Paul Burton (WBZ) -- Click here for updates on this story NORTH ATTLEBORO, Massachusetts (WBZ) -- North Attleboro Council member Darius Gregory made his voice heard during Monday's town [...]

Byline: Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN (CNN) -- New Brunswick, New Jersey (CNN) — Along with the smell of old books and the shelves of trendy novels at the South Brunswick High [...]

That a book lacks student interest seems a sorry justification for culling one of the seminal classic novels of this country from the library of Lassiter High School! Such 19th [...]

To the Editor: Re ''This Summer, I Became the Book-Banning Monster of Iowa,'' by Bridgette Exman (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 3): The writer is clearly no monster, and we appreciate [...]