It's said that in 48 BC, a large portion of the Great Library of Alexandria's collection was destroyed in a fire started by Julius Caesar during Caesar's Civil War. By that time, Alexandria, Egypt, ...

DC Public Libraries is facing more than $1 million in cuts under a Trump order. Credit: Darrow Montgomery D.C. libraries are facing more than $1 million in potential budget cuts following convicted ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Coeur d’Alene Public Library trustees voted Wednesday in favor of dissolving a regional library consortium, though a final decision in the matter won’t come until July at the ...

2024 has seen many devastating budget cuts to libraries. Earlier this year, New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams proposed to cut more than $58 million from the city’s libraries. (After public protests, ...

Most U.S. library buildings face deferred maintenance, aging systems and limited funding options that put core civic services at risk, a new GAO report found.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides grants to libraries and museums nationwide, has been effectively shuttered and its staff placed on administrative leave. This ...

When Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs was growing up, he got hooked on what would become a lifelong hobby: Dungeons & Dragons. As a person of color and nerd who’d been picked on as a kid, he ...

Sara Peattie makes and puppeteers giant puppets, but she never intended to start a puppet library. “We were doing pageants and parades and we had all these puppets, and people kept wanting to borrow ...

Congress members from both sides of the aisle are urging the State Department to reconsider their move to close passport ...