Yancey County Public Library is a historic building near downtown Burnsville, the county seat. (Photo by Sarah Melotte) After a year of controversy over LGBTQ book displays, county commissioners in a ...

It’s indicative of an undercurrent of homophobia that exists in the town among a small portion of its 5,000 residents, according to more than a dozen current and former Vinton residents. Although not ...

As a renewed push is underway to update provincial funding, Alberta's libraries in small towns and rural counties are feeling ...

One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. And in this tender story, Myron, the library ...

VERMILLION, S.D. (KELO) — A small town library has found a new way to help out the community. The public library in downtown Vermillion will now start checking out household items to residents. “Right ...

Walking into the Rockwell Falls Public Library today, it's difficult to imagine it ever shut down. Sunlight streams through tall windows overlooking a stretch of the Hudson River that bisects the ...

ALEXANDRIA, Neb. (KOLN) - Once closed and almost forgotten, a small town library in Thayer County is back open, thanks to a group of community members determined to preserve a piece of local history ...

“Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World” by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter, 2008, Grand Central Publishing, $19.99/$21.99 Canada, 277 pages: If you’re reading this column, it’s pretty ...