Digital books in the public library reached 379.4 million check outs in 2025, which is a 3% increase from 2024. Digital ...

That momentum has carried into the new year too. Also, the Pinole facility will be renovated, during which time its patrons ...

In 2020 everything went digital. Millions of people worked from home, used Zoom to complete college degrees and communicated with loved ones solely through the internet. The rest of the world adapted ...

What does the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) mean for libraries? Signed into law by President Joe Biden on November 15, 2021, IIJA includes a historic investment in advancing digital ...

Libraries worldwide broke digital lending records last year as Overdrive, the company that operates Libby and Sora, recently reported seeing more than 739 million borrows of audiobooks, e-books and ...

Kate Lambert recalls using her library card just once or twice throughout her childhood. Now, she uses it several times a month. The lure? Electronic books she can download to her laptop. Beginning ...

In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software—in a copyright case with significant ...

The Vermillion Public Library and the library at the University of South Dakota have teamed up to teach community members how ...

Beginning this month, Hawaii residents will be able to sit down with trained “digital navigators ” at public libraries for help with everyday technology skills, part of a new state initiative to ...

When Dianne Basso moved to Colorado in 2011 after years overseas, she couldn’t wait to get a library membership. A lifelong reader, Basso had been living in countries where English wasn’t the official ...