Lancaster County could lose five passport agencies before the end of the year after federal officials told local libraries they could no longer process passport applications. Karla Trout, executive ...

As anyone who has taken a liberal arts course or completed their general education requirements should know: scholarly research can be a bit of a headache. Finding relevant sources, making sure they ...

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There were 10,000 instances of book bans at public schools in the 2023-24 school year, according to PEN America. In 2024, 5,813 titles were challenged in public libraries and schools nationwide, says ...

You've probably seen those free book boxes around town where you can take a book or leave one, or maybe a CD by BJ Leiderman, who writes our theme music. Many of them are associated with a nonprofit ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Apache Maven is a Java build tool and dependency management engine that simplifies the ...

With the internet putting a seemingly infinite supply of answers, arguments, and amusements at our fingertips, do we still need libraries? The question isn’t as rhetorical as it once seemed. As shown ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

OpenLDK is a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler and runtime environment for Java, implemented entirely in Common Lisp. It bridges the gap between Java and Common Lisp by incrementally translating Java ...

OpenAI has unveiled Operator, its first semi-autonomous AI agent, which is designed to "operate" a web browser much like a person would, on their behalf. The agent uses the cursor to point and click, ...

You’d like to have an adult conversation and meet new people, but it’s freezing cold and you don’t like driving at night. Or, there’s no way you can get home from work, fix dinner for your family and ...