The Georgia Council for Public Libraries recently announced recipients of its annual awards. Among the honorees is LeRoy Childs, the state’s first black public library director. Other awards include ...

LaVonnia Moore spent 15 years serving her Pierce County, Georgia, community, including five years as manager of the local library. She thought she knew what libraries were for: fostering curiosity, ...

The first meeting of the last day of the 2024 Georgia General Assembly brought some measure of relief for librarians. Lawmakers were scheduled to consider a bill that sought to ban their affiliations ...

Those who've been trying to remove certain books from childrens' sections at public libraries are now taking aim at what they see as a source of the problem: the American Library Association. A ...

Some conservative state senators want Georgia to become the latest state to pull out of the American Library Association, a nonprofit organization that supports libraries and accredits the schools ...

ATLANTA — A group of 22 Georgia state senators proposed new legislation that would prevent any Georgia tax dollars from being used for the purchase or funding of materials, services or operations ...

This owl wanted to get even wiser. A college library in Decatur, Georgia, had to close for a week after an owl made its home there, WSB-TV reported. The brazen creature flew in through the chimney of ...

A proposal that would require school libraries to notify parents of every book their child checks out was advanced by Georgia senators Tuesday, while a proposal to subject school librarians to ...

If you take the books out of a library, is it still a library? That’s the question the Georgia Institute of Technology pondered -- and eventually answered in the affirmative -- when administrators, ...

Supporters of SB390 say ALA's leadership believes in "Marxist" ideology and taxpayers should not have to support them. Another portion of the bill states ALA has used its certification process to ...

MACON, Ga. — Kids at the Washington Memorial Library in Macon on Saturday got to sport caps and gowns to celebrate all the books they've read. The Library of Middle Georgia hosted a graduation ...