Live Video: Libraries, community centers to close one day a week - Louisville Courier-Journal

The reductions will save about $3.4 million and help eliminate a projected $20 million budget deficit for the fiscal year. Louisville Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson announced additional city spending cuts this morning, including closing all libraries and ...

Economic skid sending more in state to libraries - NW Arkansas Times

RUSSELLVILLE ? Phyllis Holt, her arms full of books, said she probably would finish reading the six novels in about a week and be ready for more. If she bought that many new books, Holt easily could have been out more than $ 100. Instead, she ...

Digital library service fastest growing in country - Pittsburgh Tribune Review

With 125,000 users in fewer than two years, an online chat called "Ask Here PA" is the fastest-growing digital reference service in the country, state officials said today. "In less than two years, the program is on target to compete for that coveted ...

Stories spark the imaginations in kids, parents - Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

A tale about a bubble gum castle has always been Mariah Kollasch?s favorite bedtime story. When Mariah, 10, and her sister, Savannah Kollasch, 14, were younger, their mother took them on magical trips through cotton candy walls and melting fudge ...

Program promotes gift of reading - Pharos-Tribune

Here?s a gift that every parent should give to a young child: The love of reading. Again this year, Reading Railroad is teaming up with the Pharos-Tribune and local libraries to encourage parents to spend 20 minutes a day reading to their children ...