With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

State technology leaders have a multibillion-dollar opportunity right now to end the digital divide as we know it. With the first installment of federal deployment and digital equity planning funds in ...

If libraries didn't already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity made available, ...

Complimentary digital access to both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times is now just a few clicks away for members of the UB community. Faculty, students and staff can activate their free ...

The San Francisco-based Internet Archive now has federal depository status, joining a network of over 1,100 libraries that archive government documents and make them accessible to the public — even as ...

Beginning this month, Hawaii residents will be able to sit down with trained “digital navigators ” at public libraries for help with everyday technology skills, part of a new state initiative to ...

Sociologist Ray Oldenburg, who introduced the concept of the “third place” in his book The Great Good Place, described these hangouts as the informal spaces outside home and school where people feel ...

A federal judge on Monday will weigh pleas by four major book publishers to stop an online lending library from freely offering digital copies of books, in a case that raises novel questions about ...