OBERLIN, Ohio, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- A public library in Oberlin, Ohio, has a holiday display that features a legless Santa Claus being pushed down the stairs by a sadistic Christmas tree.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Historians Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Romila Thapar have been chosen to share the 2008 Kluge Prize, the U.S. Library of Congress announced Wednesday.
BARRE, Mass., Dec. 1 (UPI) -- The creators of a calendar featuring nude men from Barre, Mass., said 80 locals -- some as old as 90 -- posed to raise money for the local library.
URBANA, Ill., Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Police in Urbana, Ill., say a convicted sex offender has been living in a library on the University of Illinois campus.
TOKYO, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Japan's librarians estimate upwards of 284,000 books worth more than $4 million disappeared from the country's public libraries in 2007.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ky., Aug. 25 (UPI) -- A Fayetteville, Ky., library said overdue fees and other fines will now be turned over to collection agencies that could hurt patrons' credit scores.
GRAFTON, Wis., Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A Grafton, Wis., woman said she never expected to be led away from her home in handcuffs simply for failing to return two overdue library books.
PHILADELPHIA, July 30 (UPI) -- HotMovies.com, a U.S. pay-per-view adult-movie Web site, said it is planning a party to celebrate the addition of a 100,000th film to its library.
PITTSBURGH, July 29 (UPI) -- A pair of literary vandals left unusual graffiti on the wall and steps of the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, officials said Tuesday.
WASHINGTON, July 21 (UPI) -- Legislation that would require disclosure of contributions to U.S. presidential libraries has stalled in Congress, observers say.
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- The White House said Wednesday that it is not involved in fundraising efforts for the planned George W. Bush presidential library in Texas.
LONDON, July 11 (UPI) -- A rare First Folio edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare, stolen a decade ago, has turned up at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington.
DENVER, July 10 (UPI) -- A Denver man is facing jail time and $53,549 in library fines for checking out about 1,400 books and DVDs and selling many of them online, officials said.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, June 14 (UPI) -- Hundreds of volunteers passing books from hand to hand up staircases moved much of the University of Iowa library's contents out of the reach of floodwaters.
LONDON, April 20 (UPI) -- The widow of noted U.S. poet T.S. Eliot has donated nearly $5 million to help build an independent lending library in London.
