libraries

With state legislative sessions underway, so are legislative breakfasts – bagel and coffee-filled meet-ups connecting lawmakers with advocates across different sectors. That includes libraries. In Massachusetts, officials are calling for modest increases in the face of a tighter budget recently put forward by Governor Maura Healey.

Most school district budgets were approved by New York voters Tuesday.

Many local libraries have done away with fines for overdue materials.

Activists in western Massachusetts have been rallying against book bans as libraries across the state and country face an influx of challenges aimed at removing some titles from shelves.

Three libraries in New York’s North Country have received grants for construction projects.

Leaders in Cohoes say a half-million-dollar state grant will fund efforts to reopen the Albany County city’s historic library.

The 91st Anniversary Woodstock Library Fair on July 23 is a home-town small-town party in celebration of Woodstock, and in homage to George Bellows’s iconic painting, “The Picnic.”The fair takes place Saturday, July 23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the library lawn, featuring music and dancing, a book sale, rummage sale, food trucks with delicious and varied treats for the family, the raffle, childrens' area with bouncy house, children’s parade and maypole, and much more.We welcome The Friends of the Woodstock Library President, Michael Hunt.

PEN America's Jonathan Friedman explains how challenges of school library books might impact free speech and public education as a whole.

The New York state Assembly is holding a hearing Friday in Albany on state libraries.Assembly Libraries and Education Technology Committee Chair Didi…

In its first summer in operation, a western Massachusetts city’s bookmobile has been a big success. Library advocates hope the service offered in Chicopee…