It's hoped that a successful appeal will allow Internet Archive to restore its full listing and continue lending the books. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

An overdue library book, checked out in 1979, was finally returned with a handwritten note from its sender and a $20 donation to the Deschutes Public Library. (Photo: Deschutes Public Library) It was ...

In February, nine “brave” people opened their lives up to questions from forty strangers. All volunteers, they’d responded to an invitation to participate in Bermuda’s first Human Library as either ...

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At the end of a successful second year of its collective funding initiative, Taylor & Francis has announced the publication of 32 new open access (OA) books on key global themes, including children’s ...

A federal judge has ordered government officials in Llano County, Texas to return books with LGBTQ+ and anti-racist themes to the county’s public libraries after conservative officials removed them.

A Colorado woman was decluttering, when she found something that had belonged to her grandmother: “Shakespeare’s Life of King Henry the Fifth.” By Victor Mather When a copy of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” ...

The Internet Archive has lost a legal battle which could see the whole web get a lot less freaky. The Second Circuit US Court of Appeals upheld a previous ruling in favor of Hachette Book Group.

With publishers and libraries at odds over e-book licensing’s long-term expense, hold times, and ethical concerns, a new platform called Briet is pursuing an open-access approach. Briet invites ...

Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...