NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their ...

Step into a world where history whispers through grand halls, where books hold the secrets of centuries, and where beauty intertwines with knowledge. Washington, DC isn’t just a political powerhouse; ...

Memento Cognitio is a hardware-software project that enables users to capture images with an Adafruit MEMENTO Camera Board, analyze them using AI (Google Gemini), and receive concise spoken ...

Hi everyone!, my project is a standalone Smart Library Kiosk designed to replace the traditional librarian counter with a self-service system. Built on the Adafruit Memento Development Board (from ...

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...

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This fact sheet was formerly named "Internet Use in Libraries." The focus of this fact sheet is on how libraries assist with the ever-growing Internet access needs of their library patrons - ...

When we took a look at the nation’s declining reading habits, our struggling bookstores and the prodigious number of books consumed by America’s top 1 percent of readers, scores of you wrote in with a ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

This issue brief offers an overview of the role and impact of school libraries, followed by recommendations to increase school library funding at the local, state, and federal levels as well as to ...

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Less than two months into 2024, lawmakers in at least 13 states have introduced legislation that could disrupt libraries’ services and censor their materials. The new wave of bills follows a historic ...