With the spring planting season underway, area libraries invite patrons to check out something besides the latest new bestseller or DVD – seeds. Housed in repurposed card catalogs, seed libraries ...

The card catalog was slated to be discarded during a massive library renovation. Small wonder: It hadn’t been updated in two decades, it sat mostly unused, and it would cost hundreds of thousands of ...

Among the study tables and the stacks of books and the periodical reading rooms, at public libraries from North Berwick to Milbridge to Bangor, seeds have suddenly taken root in the catalog — often ...

As students and community members started to gather in the Murray-Venable courtyard on Wednesday, one thing stood out – an old card catalog. Rather than being filled with cards though, it was filled ...

A sound that’s almost synonymous with visiting a quiet public library — the clacking of fingers on public computers — is slowly slipping toward possible extinction. In analysis of public library data ...