SACRAMENTO – A major piece of funding for the California State Library has been terminated, officials say. The Library Services and Technology Act had awarded the California State Library $15.7 ...

Valley Hi-North Laguna Library’s defining form grew from a simple sketch: an asymmetrical, wing-like roofline that captures ...

According to a Scholastic and YouGov study, 95% of parents agree that every community needs a public library. However, the ...

On Wednesday, April 2, a California State Library spokesman said the institution had not been informed of any changes to its budget, but that changes in federal funding might be coming, perhaps in the ...

Among the bookshelves at the Central Library in downtown Los Angeles, Ramón Hernández sits in a cubicle a few days a week, holding hour after hour of consultations with immigrants who have questions ...

California lawmakers have restored funding for a popular program that allows library card holders to check out thousands of state park passes for free. The program’s $6.7 million annual budget had ...

Under California's new Freedom to Read Act, Assembly Bill 1825 prohibits public libraries from banning books because of the race, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability ...

A worker shelves books at the Billie Jean King Main Library in Long Beach on Aug. 7, 2025 . The Long Beach Public Library is participating in Books Unbanned, a nationwide effort to provide access to ...