Marin County’s library system is celebrating its 1 millionth digital checkout. Library patrons can borrow digital copies of books, magazines, Spanish-language titles and audiobooks for their mobile ...

Television and movie lovers who cut the cable cord in favor of online streaming can take advantage of a free service offered by the Carroll County Public Library system. Hoopla, a popular digital ...

The King County Library has emerged to become second most popular library across the United States — digitally. King County Library System cardholders checked out more than 8.8 million online titles ...

Public libraries across the country are turning to VR to enhance education and draw in new visitors. Here’s how to make such a program a success. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW ...

Amazon has generally been reluctant to allow libraries to have access to its ebooks, preferring instead to make those available via its own Kindle ebook store. Public advocacy groups and libraries ...

Steve Potash, the bearded and bespectacled president and C.E.O. of OverDrive, spent the second week of March, 2020, on a business trip to New York City. OverDrive distributes e-books and ...

At the flagship Central branch of the Seattle Public Library, 130 computers are sitting vacant, their screens blank. Each one bears a laminated sign: "Out of Service." The computers are one casualty ...

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In 2002, Arizona’s Tucson-Pima public library system opened a branch without books, the first in the U.S. to attempt an all-digital existence. But just a few years later, the library phased in printed ...

Starting May 1, the Chicago Public Library is making changes to library cards and borrowing limits it says will make materials more accessible to Chicago residents. E-cards will be discontinued, and ...