Kristy Thompson scanned her library card, tapped in her pin number and walked into the Elko New Market Library Thursday afternoon, motion lights announcing her entry into the darkened space. She ...

The Montana Branch began offering self-service hours on Tuesday, July 9, via Open+, a comprehensive self-service model that provide controlled access to the library. Community members who are ...

When Jacob Grussing, director of Scott County Library (SCL) in Shakopee, Minnesota, spoke to the local paper about SCL’s investigation into self-serve library services, he wasn’t exactly prepared for ...

A recent post by Emily Ford at In the Library With a Lead Pipe, a blog that publishes substantial, sourced, peer-reviewed essays that are always worth reading, asked us to think about what we do and ...

With the start of another academic year, Mugar Memorial Library at Boston University is offering a self-checkout system that serves as a tech-savvy alternative to checking books out at the circulation ...

The Lafayette Parish public library director may be self-censoring books and movies, whether he realizes it or not, an LSU assistant professor of library science said Friday. But Library Director ...

I love reading books and that’s why I have a membership card for my city’s public library. Do I visit it often? No, I don’t. I’m normally too busy or lazy to leave the house just for that. For the ...