Nintendo Power, Sports Illustrated for Kids, and a biography of President Obama were on prominent display as I entered the branch library in Forest Hills, Queens. The librarian looked skeptical when I ...

It may have been overshadowed by the debate about the sports complex, but plans to expand and renovate the Pasadena's central library building on Jeff Ginn could have an equally major impact on the ...

Bob Jewett of Georgetown is a five-book-a-week kind of library patron. No e-books for him. "I do paperback, large print and just regular books," he said. But at 78, he knows not every library patron ...

Sometime in the ’80s, I sat at a table in the town library in Lenox, Mass., doing my eighth-grade algebra homework. A man, probably about the age I am now, appeared in front of me. He wore a ...

Betty spends each Thursday morning there, reading to children, filing and processing books and visiting with readers of all ages. She loves the work of Louisa May Alcott and the classics. In between, ...