TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - Indiana State University's library reopened Friday after rows of shelves tumbled over like dominoes, scattering 25,000 books. The Cunningham Memorial Library was closed after ...

Long-time Escondido library volunteer Virgina Abushanab doesn’t like what she sees when she looks at the racks of shelving in the city library. Perhaps more to the point, she’s not thrilled about what ...

As libraries expand their services and adjust collections to current demands, flexible and adaptable spaces become increasingly important. While capacity and storage problems are most often addressed ...

Walking through the central branch of the Indianapolis Public Library, it seems a little bare. Chunks of shelves lie empty, mainly around the area with reference books right in front of the stairs to ...

Before the early 20 th century, public libraries typically used wooden bookcases with fixed shelves to house their volumes. In the 1910s, new public literacy initiatives like Andrew Carnegie’s library ...

Crack open a book at the San Francisco Public Library, and you can find tales about dragons and castles, ancient cultures and traditions, mysteries and romances. But here’s the thing: The characters ...

Last month, Quebec’s Trois-Rivières Library District installed an RFID-based system at its three libraries, in order to automate the return of books. The technology helps to eliminate the period of ...

Few understand the high stakes of the fast-paced library materials world as fully as Katy Schulz. “The ‘best-seller’ lists are too late for us. Months too late,” Schulz says. She and her staff of ...

At the U.S. Naval Academy, it's not what's on the shelves that's drawing attention -- but what's missing. The institution's Nimitz Library has been stripped of 381 titles, according to a list first ...