Public libraries rarely own and operate Internet routers that are worth more than the building in which the library sits. Rather incredibly, however, that was the case for at least one library in West ...

PARKERSBURG — The West Virginia Library Commission has announced a new service for authors. SELF-e will support local authors by providing a platform to make their eBooks available to more libraries.

Brian Raitz, director of the Parkersburg & Wood County Public Library, urges members of the House Judiciary Committee Wednesday to reject a bill to remove criminal liability protections for librarians ...

West Virginia lawmakers are considering opening public and school libraries up to felony charges for the display or dissemination of obscene material. Librarians are pushing back, questioning how such ...

Legislation to open libraries to felony prosecution if minors gain access to obscene materials has been a source of controversy, but it hasn’t yet hit a committee agenda. Right now, public and school ...

Connie Perry, the president of the trustees of the Morgan County Public Library in Berkeley Springs, W.Va., said Friday afternoon by phone that her town library will carry Bob Woodward’s “Fear.” Perry ...

FAIRMONT — Republicans stripped the credential qualification previously required for the state’s library director position this past legislative session. House Bill 2009 dissolved the Department of ...

It’s National Library Week, but library directors throughout West Virginia aren’t all feeling festive. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Institute of ...

Water-soaked books await pickup outside the flooded Rainelle (W.Va.) Public Library. Credit: Rainelle Public Library Loretta Jones, who will soon turn 82 but says she is “hanging on to 81 until I’m ...