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How you can help save turtles crossing the road

It's that time of year when pregnant turtles must leave their watery homes and search for high and dry spots to lay their eggs. Unfortunately, their journeys to nesting sites sometimes can take the creatures across roads and highways.

Talking books provide needed service

STAUNTON-Deep within the Staunton Public Library sits a little known service center, an operation that helps bring the joy of reading back into the lives of the visually impaired. The

The World’s Weirdest Libraries (Photos)

Camels, manta rays, and tree boxes—people have been getting creative to get folks to take out a book.

Online Course: Buying and Selling Antiques and Collectibles

How to Buy and Sell Antiques and Collectibles offers a highly successful approach to acquiring and selling antiques and collectibles for both fun and profit. This course incorporates many strategies of acquiring and selling desirable objects and pieces, with the goal of personal enjoyment and fulfillment.

What Libraries Can (Still) Do

Librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” Knowledge in physical form needs to be preserved and curated. But with digital information pouring into iPhones and Kindles in petabytes, libraries need to rethink old habits. They cannot collect everything, or even a small fraction of everything.

Government lawyers don’t understand the Internet. That’s a problem.

How the Decatur Public Library is a crucial tool for homeschooling families

DECATUR — Homeschooling families depend on the Decatur Public Library.

Teacher in the Library: Making a Difference among Students

How can a Teacher in the Library change a student's life? Read Bilal's story here.

10 Things That Are Free at Public Libraries

Before you spend another dollar on items and services like these, check with your public library.

7 Creative Ways to Save $100s By Using the Library

Much more than books, your library offers streaming services, crafting platforms, maybe even a Wi-Fi device or prom dress!

Let’s Digitize! Building the Library’s Digital Lab

By Robin Naughton, Head of Digital If your materials cannot take a trip to an external digitization lab to be converted from analog to digital, then you do what all aspiring DIYers do: you bring th…

5 things you probably didn't know your local library provides

An economist received national backlash last weekend after suggesting in a Forbes op-ed that libraries be replaced with Amazon bookstores to save taxpayers money. But here are a few resources and services your local libraries offer that you may not have even known about.

Get Creative! With Your Public Library

The public library is here to support creative development at all ages with events, classes, resources, collaborative spaces, books, etc.

Libraries are not for everyone until librarianship can be for everyone

Let’s count all the ways the MLS degree has suppressed talent in libraries — and what we can do about it

5 Inspired Ways Libraries Can Kick-Start Your Creativity

This is a guest post from Margret Aldrich, a writer and editor who has worked with authors from American Indian activist Winona LaDuke to punk-rock guitar legend Cheetah Chrome. Her book about Little

Feeling blue? Add some color at the Topeka and Shawnee Co. Public Library

Feeling blue is being encouraged this winter at the Topeka and Shawnee Co. Public Library.

Beyond bookshelves: Meet your public library's robots

The Westport, Ct. library has two robots that patrons can learn how to program.