They don't spread germs. And you don't need to stand in line to get them. Electronic books, music and magazines are free at public libraries, easy to download and their popularity has risen as public ...

On a typical day, public libraries would encourage you to stop by and browse its aisles, peruse its books, and maybe even borrow a few favorites from the circulation desk. But these are not typical ...

Hoopla is a cloud-based digital library service that offers streaming movies and TV shows, music, and audiobooks to people with a public library membership. Hoopla provides around 250,000 albums and ...

Agata Mrva-Montoya is a member of the Executive Committee of the Round Table on Information Access for People with Print Disabilities The Internet Archive was founded in 1996 as a non-profit digital ...

When the Lafayette Public Library switched to a new digital platform Wednesday, patrons who use Kindle e-readers lost access to e-books and audiobooks through those devices. At midnight Wednesday, the ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Library is celebrating the milestone of creating over one million bibliographic metadata records in the UN Digital Library, its online catalogue. Every year, the UN generates ...

It was a crazy idea: Take the bulk of the world’s books, scan them, and create a monumental digital library for all to access. That’s what Google dreamed of doing when it embarked on its ambitious ...

A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan their own book collections. A potentially landmark copyright lawsuit could affect how libraries are able to scan ...

The Seattle region loves to read. The city is one of just two UNESCO cities of literature in the country. "We just have voracious readers in Seattle,” said Elena Gutierrez, collection services manager ...

Launched with the aim of bringing a technological revolution in the field of education, this library will provide local students access to digital resources and better study material.

In a report published this week, veteran London-based bookseller, library advocate, and former Waterstones managing director Tim Coates warns that U.S. public library usage statistics show a steep ...