BBAU scholars’ library management design gets patent

Lucknow: Dr Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (BBAU) researchers received patent on design of an intelligent book sorting ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

It’s a monster: Bentonville library announces name of new book sorting machine

BENTONVILLE -- The new machine meant to increase efficiency and provide better service for patrons at the public library has a new name to go with it. The library announced via a news release Thursday ...
The Gazette

Iowa libraries left in a lurch after closure of major book supplier

Patron Services Specialist Elysha Holley racks books on a cart in the sorting room at the Cedar Rapids Public Library’s Ladd Library in southwest Cedar Rapids on Tuesday. The library, like many ...
WJHG

Volunteers needed to help sort books in Bay County

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - Volunteers with the Bay County library Foundation are sorting through 20,000 donated books to stock the free library on Wheels... or “F.L.O.W.” This year marks their ...
The Harvard Crimson

E-Book Contracts Are a Big Cost for Public Libraries. One Harvard Librarian Is Fighting to Change That.

For the past five years, Kyle K. Courtney, who directs copyright and information policy for Harvard’s libraries, has fought to make e-books more accessible to public libraries across the United States ...
CNN

New Jersey woman returns her grandfather’s library book 99 years overdue

When Mary Cooper downsized her home, she brought boxes of her late mother’s belongings to her new home. Sorting through them after the move, Cooper, 81, discovered an artifact — a library book 99 ...
Houston Public Media

Cy-Fair ISD’s focus on libraries followed flood of book challenges by two trustees’ inner circles

In this screenshot of a Cy-Fair ISD board meeting video from Oct. 3, 2024, district trustee Todd LeCompte, left, speaks as fellow trustee Lucas Scanlon listens. Books and libraries have been a focus ...