The roughly 2,000 monthly patrons to the Bucksport library will be without their local library until the start of spring as it undergoes renovations. One of those renovations is the installation of a ...

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 ...

A Wellington Library is trialling a new way of cataloguing its mātauranga Māori books, organising them by atua (deity) rather than by the Dewey Decimal system. The trial shelves can be found on the ...

The meeting comes after federal Judge Robert Pitman on March 30 ordered the Llano County Library System – which includes three branches – to return 12 children’s books to its shelves that had been ...

OCALA - A Marion County Public Library System patron has requested that a book containing Osama bin Laden's writings be removed from the library shelves, but the library director has said it should ...

Around the turn of the 20 th century—a golden age for libraries in America—the Snead Bookshelf Company of Louisville, Ky., developed a new system for large-stack library shelving. Snead’s multifloor ...

THORNTON — Clunky. Out of touch. Ready for the dustbin. Plenty would say that about General Motors or other American icons badly in need of retooling. But officials at the Rangeview Library District ...

Is the Dewey Decimal system dying out in public libraries? The Dewey Decimal Classification system has been used in U.S. libraries since the 1870s when Melvil Dewey developed it and put his name on it ...

Marx is President and CEO of The New York Public Library. Walcott is President and CEO of Queens Public Library. Johnson is President and CEO of Brooklyn Public Library In September, one of the ...

The Library Supply Centre is the central warehouse and processing facility for NLB's network of public libraries. Read more ...