ST. LOUIS — What’s the longest you’ve ever held onto a library book? If your answer is anything less than four decades, one St. Louis reader has you beat. Last Friday, the St. Louis Public Library ...

A new half-a-million dollar computerized sorting system at the Napa library now whisks returned books from patrons’ hands to sorting carts and back to shelves faster and more efficiently than ever ...

They had already turned the page. A Chicago man tried to return an overdue book he checked out in his hometown library 50 years ago — but they told him he might as well keep it at this point. Chuck ...

An Upper Arlington Public Library patron checked out “All the Ways We Said Goodbye,” a 2020 historical fiction novel, shortly before going on a trip to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s unclear if they ...

The Newark Library in Delaware will soon have a meeting with a wrecking ball. This week, the fifty year old structure will close for the final time as a construction project is expected to begin in ...

The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed Thursday a District Court’s ruling to return books to a Texas public library after they were removed because of their viewpoint and ...

A young woman was leaving the courtroom when District Judge Edward Lewis noticed an outstanding warrant on her record and recalled her to the bench.

An Orange County Superior Court judge has ordered the city of Huntington Beach to eliminate a youth-restricted section on the fourth floor of the Central Library and return all books that had been ...

Nearly two months after a ransomware attack shut down much of its system, Seattle Public Library is now processing returns. "We are hard at work processing books and restocking our shelves," the ...

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Elizabeth school district to return 19 banned books to the shelves of its school libraries by 5 p.m. on Saturday. The order represents the second time U.S.