Throughout February, WTOP is celebrating Black History Month. Join us on-air and online as we bring you the stories, people and places that make up our diverse community. As Black History Month ...

Staff at an Ohio library were shocked to discover a note alongside something else unexpected in an overdue book returned by a young girl. "I bit off more than I could chew by checking 11 books out," ...

The library is a place for learning and gathering. But like other public spaces, sometimes people do weird things there. Libraries “are great community spaces, but the truth of working in a library ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Get ready for the next book and media sale at the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, ...

They come for vintage classics and children's hardbacks and historical romance. They slide titles off metal shelves and fill paper sacks. They browse for hours, scanning spines for the perfect read.

State library board members pushed the issue of a local library’s state funding down the road again, while finalizing a new policy change restricting children and teen books with transgender ...

If you’re still paying full price for audiobooks while you’re in uniform, you’re probably leaving money on the table. Between public libraries, free apps, and the DoD’s own digital library, you can ...

Pearland school board members knew they couldn't personally vet hundreds of books for “indecent” or “profane” content prohibited under a new state law. So when they met this fall to consider a ...

Customers waited in a line that stretched for more than a block on the opening day of the fall Friends of the Library book sale on Saturday, Oct. 25, 2025. “It’s quite overwhelming whenever you think ...

Across the state of Indiana, pressure groups, government entities and community members challenged around 50 books’ position on library shelves in 2024, according to the American Library Association.

When Patricia McCormick published her novel Sold in 2006, she never imagined it would someday become one of the most challenged books in the United States. The critically acclaimed work, which tackles ...