Central library decorated for last year's gala.

Want a character in a book named after you?

You can buy chances as part of a fund-raiser for the St. Louis Public Library Foundation.

Each chance in the raffle is $25. Winners will get a character…

The St. Louis Public Library will buy 25 computers with money granted from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

According to the library, it will provide a 25 percent matching amount during 2010, the first year of the grant, and a 50 percent matching amount…

The St. Louis Public Library collected more than 13,000 pounds of food for the St. Louis Area Foodbank.

Cans were collected in the “Food for Fines” program, which ran through the month of July. Patrons with library fines were able to pay down…

Dancers at the library's 2009 Winter White gala.

Book lovers can peek at rare treasures and back rooms at the historic St. Louis Public Library. Or for  those with, well, different tastes, the library will offer a book event with Hulk Hogan.

Those are two of the…

If you’ve been to the Carpenter branch of the St. Louis Public Library, you know it’s one of the most ethnically diverse library branches in the city. (And the renovated building itself is absolutely gorgeous.) This branch, which is just down…

    When I was a kid, I felt terribly embarrassed if I had a library fine - as if I’d stolen something or intentionally refused to take the book back to the library or bookmobile. Librarians had a reputation for being…

Check out a book and then a free concert this May on Thursday nights.

The St. Louis Public Library’s first  concert in May’s Not so Quiet! library series is at 5 p.m. Thursday (May 7).

Classical musicians in the Crusell Quartet will be…

Laurell K. Hamilton will launch her 17th Anita Blake book, “Skin Trade,” on June 1 at St. Louis Public Library. That’s the day before newest book in the vampire hunter series is scheduled to go on sale.

Subterranean Books says in its…

Amonte Mason of Kirkwood read to 11-year-old Maggie in this file photo from 2005. It was taken at the Oak Bend Library in Oakland.

If a child reads to a dog, the animal may or may not benefit but the child…

A few years ago this city had no major community reading initiatives. But are we now overloaded? Along with a couple of Big Reads and Read MOre, add Read St. Louis.

Read MOre, a “one book” reading initiative, is bringing…