Google's book-search program has allies and enemies among librarians. Now three library groups have filed complaints, but not an objection, to a book-search legal settlement. Stephen Shankland worked ...

You might be paying too much for your e-books when you can get them for free from your local library and read them right on your Kindle, Kobo, or even your phone. A lot of people don't realize their ...

You can get library books on a Kindle device through Amazon's partnership with OverDrive, as long as you have a library membership with a participating institution ...

Ten months ago, Google announced that it planned to scan, digitize and make searchable the collections of five of the largest libraries in the world. At first, it seemed like one of those nifty ideas ...

The Brandeis Library provides access to a wealth of information resources in many formats. As much as possible, scholarly content is transitioned from print to electronic form, enabling more powerful ...

Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...

The country music legend is also a champion of early childhood literacy, through her Imagination Library. Every month, the nonprofit program mails a free book to more than a million children — from ...

For more than a century, the Dewey Decimal Classification system has dictated the way libraries organize their collections. And the way they organize and sort information says a lot about what kind of ...