When you manage some 20,000 books, 2,000 videos and about 1,000 TVs, VCRs and carts, a card catalog system doesn’t cut it anymore. So Patricia McGreal, library director at Chicago’s Mother McAuley ...

The Pikes Peak Library District will close all branches Wednesday and Thursday as it prepares to launch a new software system. The district is in the middle of switching to Polaris software, which ...

A new Chronicle article on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who’s to blame for patrons’ search frustrations and how to fix the situation. The article ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...

Vernon Area Public Library District has received a $62,000 grant from the Reaching Across Illinois Library System to support a major upgrade that will make borrowing faster, easier and more convenient ...

The Southwest Harbor Public Library is offering two information sessions to brief patrons on the March 17 change to accessing ...