Whether you’re a bookworm or you just love beautiful buildings, there’s something special about libraries. The UK is home to ...

Librarians are facing growing calls for LGBT+ books to be removed from shelves, industry leaders have warned, as the influence of US pressure groups is felt in the UK. Some library workers who fight ...

New figures showing the dwindling popularity of UK libraries suggest the facilities have fallen into a “trap” and a new approach is needed, campaigner Tim Coates has said. Coates, a former Waterstones ...

London is calling! Actually, it’s Westbury-sub-Mendip’s new 24-hour phone booth library! After witnessing their weekly mobile library disappear, this wee town in the south of England town wasn’t going ...

BOOK lovers will be pleased to hear that they can spend the night in a library in the UK. Gladstone’s Library, in North Wales, is the only residential library in the country, with 26 rooms for ...

Librarians are custodians to a world of information and ideas, performing an important democratic role, their supporters argue. But with 8,000 jobs in UK libraries disappearing in six years, is that ...

It’s not a surprise. There is a depressing metronomic regularity to the news, but it’s not a surprise. Libraries are in crisis. And the country greets the details with a polite frown and a shrug.

Claimed to be one of the oldest libraries in Europe and ranked as the top library in England by Tripadvisor 2023, the Bodleian Library in Oxford opened to scholars in 1602. Since opening it has ...

1.1 The University of Bristol Library service comprises: the Arts and Social Sciences Library, the Medical Library, the Queen’s Building Library, the Wills Memorial Library, the Education Library, the ...