BOSTON - Employees at the Boston Public Library (BPL) want to donate their sick time to a co-worker who's battling cancer. But the union says the city is blocking their gift of compassion. Eve Griffin ...

From fomenting colonial discontent with British rule in the 1700s to the No Kings rallies of today, posters spread messages ...

The stacks at Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country. (Aram Boghosian for Boston Public Library Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest ...

A phone booth has been installed at the Boston Public Library where visitors can leave messages. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Meredith Goldstein from the Boston Globe about her project.

Teens and young adults nationwide can now sign up for a free account with the Boston Public Library, which offers access to digital copies of books including those that may be banned in the libraries ...

Boston Public Library (BPL) was the first large free municipal library in the United States. The present Copley Square location has been home to the Library since 1895, when architect Charles Follen ...

As libraries nationwide grapple with increasing pressures to remove certain books from their shelves, the Boston Public Library (BPL) is taking a bold stand by extending its digital collection to ...

Under pressure to create more affordable housing, the city of Boston plans to build on top of properties it already owns, like libraries. But the cost of these developments is far from modest — ...

Boston Public Library, one of the oldest and largest public library systems in the country, is launching a project this summer with OpenAI and Harvard Law School to make its trove of historically ...

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more... Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a ...