In her book, Natalia Rogach Alexander discusses how the celebrated thinker on democracy and education can still enlighten ...

Library officials stated that 'nonspecific threats' led to the closure of all branches of the Adams County Library System on Friday, Jan. 9, 2026. In a release posted around noon on Friday, Jan. 9, ...

Those wishing to borrow materials from libraries in the Lackawanna County Library System won’t have to worry about a financial penalty for late items in the new year — a move officials hope will bring ...

It is the 174th birthday of Melvil Dewey, the man who created the Dewey Decimal System, and was responsible more than any other person for the creation and promotion of the field of Library Science in ...

Editor’s note: “Behind the News” is the product of Sun staff assisted by the Sun’s AI lab, which includes a variety of tools such as Anthropic’s Claude, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini and ChatGPT. Dewey ...

Melvil Dewey made huge contributions to the library world during his life. In 1876, while he was a student at Amhurst, Dewey started a library product and furniture business called the Library Bureau.

Each year, readers look forward to the King County Library System’s annual Best Books list — curated recommendations spanning age groups and genres from the people who know books best: local library ...

Did you know that Dec. 10 is Dewey Decimal System Day? Me neither. Born on Dec. 10, 1851, Melvil Dewey is the librarian who invented the Dewey Decimal system of library classification. And in an age ...

A 38-year-old man has pleaded guilty to a federal charge for stealing a rare and historical Chinese manuscript from the UCLA library system, according to court papers. Jeffrey Ying of Fremont, in ...

Even if the Library System of Lancaster County can convince county commissioners to increase its annual grant by 6%, it would still have to cut a staff member, sell a van used to deliver books to ...

Yakima County library system officials will give notice that they plan to cancel their decades-old library services contracts with four cities at the end of this year. The decision by the Yakima ...