While the library likes to make sure the shelves aren't packed tight with books so it's easier to get things out, there isn't a hard limit on the number of books it can be filled with, he said.

As Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, told Michele Goldberg for her New York Times opinion piece on the rash of book ...

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 ...

In a Maryland school library, empty shelves are about to get emptier. While the nation has been focusing on book bans, some schools have gone without enough (noncontroversial) books.

Seventy percent of the Houston Independent School District's libraries have collections that are so small or so old, the state considers them below standard. And HISD isn't the only local district ...

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

Judge Robert Pitman had ordered the county to make the disputed children’s books available on library shelves again, including books regarding sexual identity and racism.

HOUSTON, TEXAS - APRIL 26: Books line the shelves at the Rice University Library on April 26, 2022 in Houston, Texas. A group of local residents are suing Llano County in federal court for the ...

Now the library has 400 copies, all of which were checked out the other day. For Ms. Thomas’s new book, “On the Come Up,’’ Ms. Ginman preordered 120 copies.

Library Bureau, Boston, MA. Classified Illustrated Catalog of the Library Bureau (1894), page 146, Sargent Rotary Bookcases with a view of the ball-bearing turntable and 73s2 Rotary Bookcase.

She and her staff of behind-the-scenes “selectors” must be the Nostradamuses of St. Paul’s public library system: deciding which 100,000 or so new books will hit the shelves every given year.