Opera Iowa brings “The Billy Goats Gruff” to the Ames Library — with free fun, big music and a troll who learns kindness.

House Study Bill 636 would ban partnerships between schools and public libraries over fears that kids have access to inappropriate books.

Iowa’s new House File 2324 would forbid any school from partnering with a public library so that students could use their school‐issued ID as a library card. The bill would end programs that give ...

A bill moving through the Iowa Legislature could cut off a program that allows every Iowa City student easy access to local ...

An Iowa bill could prohibit public schools from partnering with public libraries. Educators say these collaborations save ...

A rainy evening looks like poor weather for a bike ride, but great conditions for tuning up a bicycle in the Iowa City Bike Library’s garage. Folk music plays overhead as a Bike Library staff member ...

Each year, there are 264 new cases of cancer in Marshall County, and 86 deaths from cancer. That was just one of the important pieces of information shared with roughly 20 attendees at a seminar about ...

The big topic at Monday night’s Sioux City City Council meeting was the budget for the public library. And even though it was not on the agenda, some residents made their voices heard.

On a frigid Monday afternoon, down the streets of the Peninsula neighborhood in Iowa City, a boxy blue bus filled wall to wall with stacks of books sat parked against a curb. As biting winds tore ...

Some libraries just house books, while others are an architectural majesty with the most impressive bibliography to surround yourself with while you study, work, or write that novel. There are many ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Iowa schools without in-house libraries could soon lack access to larger media collections as a bill banning partnerships with ...