One year ago, a group of professors, librarians, and futurists gathered in San Francisco to discuss how they would go about building a Digital Public Library of America. There were still many ...

The Digital Public Library of America, an ambitious, troubled effort to make the America’s entire literary heritage universally accessible, opened its doors today ...

Your L.A. Public Library card comes with a lot of free stuff. Sure, books and ebooks. But also free digital subscriptions and access to newspapers and magazines, including the New York Times, the ...

Internet Archive — the no-cost, nonprofit digital library that has become embroiled in the nationwide battle over copyrights and free speech — is now an official source for government documents. SEE ...

On a typical day, public libraries would encourage you to stop by and browse its aisles, peruse its books, and maybe even borrow a few favorites from the circulation desk. But these are not typical ...

Hoopla is a cloud-based digital library service that offers streaming movies and TV shows, music, and audiobooks to people with a public library membership. Hoopla provides around 250,000 albums and ...

Your local library might have closed its physical doors, but its digital holdings are still open to the public—and at all hours. Free loans on ebooks, movies, audiobooks, and magazines represent just ...

The City of Chattanooga’s Department of Technology Services and the Chattanooga Public Library announce the recent launch of a new chattlibrary.org. Along with a fresh, modern look, the new website ...

Reading is a pastime that has only benefited from the expansion of smart devices like phones, tablets, and e-book readers. No longer chained to the confines of flimsy paperbacks and weighty hardcovers ...

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