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Libraries

September 2024

  • Boy frowning at vegetables

    Brief letters
    Getting children to brave brassicas

  • Man browsing books in Manchester central library

    The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books

  • Boy lying on library floor reading book

    ‘A shell of the place it used to be’: readers on the importance of libraries - and their fragile future

  • A small village branch library interior with books and electronic withdrawal/return, Wellesbourne, UK.

    More than 180 UK public libraries closed or handed to volunteers since 2016, data shows

  • Share your experience of how libraries shaped your life

  • Jack Reacher would not exist without Birmingham’s libraries, says writer

August 2024

  • Michaela Makusha

    The headlines will tell you about councils going bust. Let me tell you what that means to me

    Michaela Makusha
  • The winners of the Dublin literary award: Mircea Cărtărescu, the Romanian author of Solenoid, and the book’s translator, Sean Cotter.

    The Dublin award’s place in the Irish literary scene

  • The School Library Association identified a trend of censorship targeted at books written by queer authors or featuring queer characters.

    Dozens of UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books, survey finds

  • Spellow Hub library.

    Nearly £250,000 raised for Liverpool library damaged by rioters

  • My kids have done the Book Week walk of shame many times. This year will be different

    Melanie La’Brooy

  • Advocates react to Utah ban of 13 books in schools and libraries: ‘It’s a tragedy’

  • The rioters’ burning of Spellow library broke my heart – but books will prevail over bigotry

    Olivia Sung

  • Liverpool library torched by far-right rioters raises repair funds

July 2024

  • Shelf life … Amanda Giles and Terry Curran in the children’s section of Battle library, Reading. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books – podcast

  • A small village branch library with self-service checkouts.

    End of the librarian? Council cuts and new tech push profession to the brink

June 2024

  • Young woman reaches for a book on a shelf in a library.

    Libraries are a lifeline that we cannot afford to lose

  • Amanda Giles Battle Library, Oxford Road, Reading, RG30 1EE

    The long read
    ‘If there’s nowhere else to go, this is where they come’: how Britain’s libraries provide much more than books

  • At the heart of the exhibition hall are the Folger’s crown jewels: its 82 copies of the First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays.

    ‘We’re going to find the next Shakespeare’: inside DC’s $80m library renovation

  • Joseph Coelho.

    ‘Extraordinary’ Joseph Coelho novel wins Carnegie medal for children’s writing

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