While e-book rentals may be free for library patrons, public libraries are still on the hook for expensive digital licensing fees. Kai Ryssdal: For those who are unfamiliar, how does the business end ...

In year three of an organized right-wing political attack on the freedom to read, a string of legal victories in federal court in 2023 is buoying the spirits of librarians and freedom to read ...

When scholarship is made freely available, it allows researchers worldwide to engage with it, resulting in a much larger reach and impact. Over the past year, the University of Delaware Library, ...

John Szabo, city librarian of the Los Angeles Public Library, has engineered a deal for the nation's fifth largest library system to take on a side project as a publisher, acquiring Angel City Press. ...

For months, Carolyn Harrison and a small band of activists have been setting up folding tables with an array of what they call "bad books" outside the public library in Idaho Falls, Idaho. As Harrison ...

This year is on pace to set the record for the highest number of attempted book bans since the American Library Assn. began compiling data on library censorship more than 20 years ago. Last year, ...

Be advised that this story contains references to sex acts involving children, and suicide. LIVINGSTON PARISH, La. — It's been a year since the start of what one librarian here calls "The Troubles." ...