Inspired by her son, this NJ mom built a 3,000-book library in Paramus

Inspired by her son, Kim Catalfamo created a 3,000-book library for adults with disabilities at New Concepts for Living in ...
American Libraries Magazine

Library Advocacy on Capitol Hill

Library, had a clear answer when one of my colleagues asked why she had flown into town for the event. “It’s like asking why ...
People

Kaia Gerber’s Library Science Book Club: See All of the 2026 Selections, So Far

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. Gerber and Alyssa Reeder launched Library Science in 2024 to uplift new and underrepresented authors Lionel Hahn/Getty Kaia Gerber and ...
Newsweek

Kid’s Note Found in Returned Library Book—Staff Waste No Time Making a Call

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...
Smithsonian Magazine

You Can See a Swirling Sculpture Made of 8,000 Books at a Library in Prague

Nearly 30 years after a dizzying sculpture fashioned from books was first installed at the Prague Municipal Library in the Czech Republic, literature lovers on TikTok and Instagram have turned the ...
TwinCities.com

House passes bill codifying Trump order to rinse away showerhead regulations

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House on Tuesday advanced legislation aimed at fulfilling President Donald Trump’s long-running desire to “make showers great again” by voting to loosen ...
UPI

Overdue library book returned after 36 years of world travel

Dec. 19 (UPI) --An overdue library book was returned to the Chantilly Regional Library after 36 years and a trip to Greece. The Fairfax County Library system posted about the book's return on Facebook ...
The Boston Globe

Boston Public Library reveals its top 10 checked out books of 2025 list

Move over Spotify Wrapped: Boston Public Library unveiled its year-end wrap-up lists on Monday morning, including the top 10 checked out books of 2025. In addition to looking back at the year’s top ...
The Texas Tribune

Llano County library book removals allowed after U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear challenge

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Reuters

US Supreme Court turns away appeal of Texas library book ban

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court in a free speech case on Monday opted not to hear an appeal by a group of residents of a rural Texas county of a judicial decision allowing local ...
People

The Best Books of 2025 According to the New York Public Library — And How to Read Them

If you click on links we provide, we may receive compensation. The NYPL is offering unlimited e-book access for some of their best-of-the-year titles Jonathan Blanc The New York Public Library has ...