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Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey expressed concerns about sexually suggestive content available in children’s sections in the state’s public libraries.

Despite the pushback, nationwide conservative book reading events are scheduled for Aug. 5 at 265 libraries in 45 states.

The role of chief librarian at a university would hardly seem a post from which to become a multi-millionaire—but one man found a way.

The New York Public Library is launching the nation’s largest Internet lending program, handing out 10,000 free high-speed hot spots to some of the city’s poorest residents.

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The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association announced in July that it had completed a home for George Washington’s papers, the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.

“We only do well by doing good,” is a statement found on the website of Better World Books, a social enterprise capitalizing on the value of unwanted books to fund literacy goals nationally and around the globe.

The first of its kind in New York libraries, the state-of-the-art hub is scheduled to open in early 2013.