A new batch of library cards quietly landed at the Obama Presidential Center's library this week, I learned from faithful reader Ina "Breakfast Queen" Pinkney. Why it matters: Scores of library nerds, ...

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Snoopy has inspired all of us at Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Public Library (CCPL) to expand Library Card Sign-Up Month into a dog-­tastic extravaganza. We are crowdsourcing a “top dog” to be featured on ...

Traditionally, you need a library card to access physical books and library facilities. But in today’s digital world, things have changed, as we all know. Today, we read e-books on e-readers, thus ...

Men working at linotype machines in the Card Division Printing Office of the Library of Congress (c. 1900-1920), from The Card Catalog: Books, Cards and Literary Treasures by the Library of Congress, ...

What to Know San Diego Public Library teamed up with artist Keithan Jones to design a limited-edition Comic-Con library card.

One of Brooklyn's most prolific icons, Jay-Z, has driven scores of New Yorkers to their local public library. The Brooklyn Public Library activated more than 14,000 new library memberships between ...

For almost 10 years the Lafayette Public Library has been working with local artists to create work displayed on a limited-edition library card. This year's art comes from Lindsey Croall.

If libraries are the door to knowledge, library cards are the key. Once a mere slip of paper bearing a patron’s name, the library card is evolving into a technologically sophisticated tool that can ...