Public libraries have traditionally offered access to materials that citizens do not personally own. These materials may include periodicals, reference works as well as sound and video recordings.

If your college library is planning a renovation, consider tuning in to this Podcast to hear a group of librarians from the University of Rochester talk about what they discovered after conducting a ...

A sound that’s almost synonymous with visiting a quiet public library — the clacking of fingers on public computers — is slowly slipping toward possible extinction. In analysis of public library data ...

When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback. "People scoffed and said, 'Why would you go ...

A pair of library science researchers are working to integrate inexpensive, child-friendly computer coding tools into school and public libraries. Crystle Martin, a post-doctoral student at the ...

Libraries in the Roanoke and New River valleys will get dozens of computers thanks to a grant announced Tuesday from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation's grants total $8.1 million ...

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a grant program Tuesday to match local funds for computers in libraries across North Carolina. The foundation has 973 computers available to upgrade ...

PIERRE, S.D. -- More than 100 local libraries across South Dakota have new computers for public use, under a new initiative begun by Gov. Bill Janklow this spring. "South Dakota is the most-wired ...

Jean Armour Polly was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2019 for evangelizing computers in public libraries, the precursor to the... When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first ...