Stacks of cardboard boxes, many still taped shut, sit in an office on the fourth floor of Loussac Library in Midtown Anchorage. They contain a backlog of hundreds of new books that librarians must ...

Tina Castelan says she “wouldn’t be alive" without the public library in her small Texas Hill Country town. As a severely depressed high-schooler, Castelan picked up “Impulse” by Ellen Hopkins, a book ...