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Libraries

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

  • Charity to offer books at food banks across the UK

  • Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books because it dislikes ideas within

  • My DIY climate hack
    Chainsaws for all! I live on a rural island where we share all our tools

  • The US librarian who sued book ban harassers: ‘I decided to fight back’

May 2024

  • Copy of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Refugees was due to be returned to Helsinki’s central library month after USSR invaded Finland

    Book borrowed from Finnish library in 1939 returned 84 years late

  • Oil on canvas painting of people working in a stone yard in 18th-century Venice. A large church towers in the background

    Canaletto masterpiece returns to Wales 80 years after it was hidden in slate mine

April 2024

  • Headteachers say they are forced to mend desks and unblock toilets after losing caretakers to cuts.

    Brief letters
    Proof that teaching’s going down the pan

  • Emma Beddington

    From hiking to birdwatching to early nights – gen Z are coming for my hobbies, and they’re much better at them

    Emma Beddington
  • A young girl reaches for a book between bookshelves in a library.

    A page-turner: how to get your reading groove back

  • David Harewood poses for a portrait at Rada

    Brief letters
    David Harewood’s Romeo presaged greatness

  • Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

  • French national library quarantines books believed to be laced with arsenic

  • The experts
    The experts: librarians on 20 easy, enjoyable ways to read more brilliant books

  • As an actor, I know the value of culture. As West Yorkshire’s mayor, I’ll use it to enrich lives and provide jobs

    Tracy Brabin
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