On Wednesday, April 2, a California State Library spokesman said the institution had not been informed of any changes to its budget, but that changes in federal funding might be coming, perhaps in the ...

SACRAMENTO – A major piece of funding for the California State Library has been terminated, officials say. The Library Services and Technology Act had awarded the California State Library $15.7 ...

As California faces a staggering budget deficit, library card holders may soon lose the ability to check out free passes to more than 200 state parks, including popular destinations near Los Angeles.

630 THIS MORNING ABOUT 605 NOW. AND THIS MORNING LIBRARIES ACROSS CALIFORNIA ARE GETTING READY FOR A COSTLY HIT. WASHINGTON IS PULLING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING. MELANIE WINGO JOINS US ...

Let the checking out begin. After a 21/2-year, $105 million construction project, Fresno State's newly expanded Madden Library reopens for business today. The four-story building with a full basement ...

This includes Sutter’s Fort State Historic Park, Empire Mine State Historic Park, Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, Lake Tahoe State Recreation Area and many more within Northern California. An ...

If a regular old digital picture is worth 1,000 words, the shimmering photograph in the librarian’s hands must have been worth at least 10,000 more. Jessica Knox-Jensen, a bureau chief at the ...

Over 200 California state parks are entirely free of charge for the next year for California library card holders. Participants can check out a California State Library Parks Pass at their local ...

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Fresno State will change the name of its library, whose namesake was found to have held “deeply antisemitic views and Nazi sympathies,” university officials said. The California State University Board ...

Summer in the Bay Area is here. And if you’re itching to explore our state, and you have a library card, you can check out a free pass to over 200 state parks around California. Through the California ...