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Fines for late books will also be abolished by some libraries in England and Wales in a bid to ease financial pressures

In March 2022, the author of node-ipc, a software library with over a million weekly downloads, deliberately broke their code. If the code discovers it is running within Russia or Belarus, it attempts to replace the contents of every file on the user’s computer with a heart emoji.

Campaigns across the US to remove books from schools and libraries are a ‘direct attack on First Amendment rights,’ congressman says

Michelle Martin is the Beverly Cleary Professor for Children and Youth Services in the Information School at the University of Washington. She primarily teaches students who will be youth services librarians who work with children and young adults in libraries or other information science spaces. Below are highlights from an…

More of the city's schools which were demolished or transformed into something else

Liverpool City Council has announced which of its services will shut down

The region’s schools will be among the local authority buildings to close on Monday as the country marks a bank holiday for Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral. All council schools and nurseries as well as other public offices – including libraries – will

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'Research shows that over 80% of library leaders expect an increase in people using libraries to keep warm'