Sign up for the best picks from our travel, fashion and lifestyle writers. London is a city full of secrets. Despite the many libraries, cafes and squares on offer ...

You can buy ebooks from Amazon, Apple, Google, and other digital retailers, but why spend money when you can borrow them from your local library? If your library is signed up with Libby or Hoopla, you ...

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 ...

Library use is dwindling, with less than a third of the UK population using the service in the last year. But with community (and the latest hardbacks) on offer, Lydia Spencer-Elliott argues that memb ...

It’s the best excuse for a big, community-wide conversation about books. There will be much to enjoy across the BBC’s airwaves and in every part of the library network and in many other places as well ...

“Living in Brittany, the thing I miss most (apart from children and grandchildren) is the library service. It’s not only free books– it’s the research facilities, the contact with knowledgeable ...

World Book Day sees children march into schools dressed as their favourite literary characters once per year. Whether it’s Harry Potter, Matilda or Gandalf, or perhaps Sophie from The Tiger Who Came ...

A new library will have fewer books and less floorspace than the one it is replacing, council officials have revealed. The Central Library is being relocated from its current premises in Abbey Square ...