Carly Akers has worked as a librarian at Mobile Public Library since 2011. For the past five years, as acquisitions manager, she works behind the scenes in the technical services department as part of ...

THE BOOK WOMAN’S DAUGHTER. By Kim Michele Richardson. Sourcebooks. 352 pages. $26.99. Kim Michele Richardson’s New York Times best-selling 2019 novel “The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek” concluded ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Public Schools bus drivers have temporarily turned into mobile librarians for the district’s Books on Buses free book giveaway. Previously, students in the ...

Araba Maze, a mobile librarian from Baltimore, Maryland, is on a mission to increase access to books in underserved areas by giving free books to local Black children via her pop-up shops and vending ...

The Thompson-Nicola Regional Library (TNRL) is inviting residents to take part in a survey sharing their experience with its ...

In Stornoway, the biggest town in Scotland's Outer Hebrides islands, a yellow van sits on a narrow, one-way street. The Gaelic word leabharlann is painted on the front, back and sides, with its ...

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