A narrow staircase, grimy and dark, led up to a shimmering new world — a fascinating land beyond the muddy canal town of Akron. Although the room was quite small, it was packed to the ceiling with ...

AKRON, Ohio - Soon all you'll need is a library card to borrow original artwork from the Akron Art Museum. The museum's new Akron Art Library, set to launch later this month, so far encompasses 27 ...

“Dearest Enemy,” the first musical comedy by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, is back in the limelight a century after its world premiere in Akron. As part of Akron’s bicentennial celebration, the ...

The Masonic Temple was the first home of what today is the Akron-Summit County Public Library. The Akron Public Library first opened its doors on March 1, 1874. To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the ...

"The project has been great for the Media Lab, because it allows us to reach learners and communities we may not reach through online-only programs," Schmidt said in an email. "And the libraries ...

A librarian by day, a musician by night. The quiet world of archival research blends seamlessly with the raucous world of rock ’n’ roll in the life of Mary Plazo, 54, the manager of the Special ...

Linda Hale probably knows every nook and cranny of the downtown Akron-Summit County Public Library. Hale is the microbusiness specialist at the library’s new Microbusiness Center, which had a soft ...

AKRON, Ohio — Library patrons can now reap what they check out. Akron-Summit County Public Library recently added a seed-sharing library, a resource for distributing primarily heirloom vegetable seeds ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AKRON, Ohio — The Children’s Library at the ...

A standing room-only crowd cheered Monday night as Akron Borough Council agreed to partially fund Ephrata Public Library after months of debate that many expected to end in a historic total defunding ...

Over 60 Akron residents jammed into Borough Council’s chambers Monday with one topic in mind: whether to cut Ephrata Public Library’s funding. The borough’s proposed 2023 budget contains no funds for ...