State funding cuts are pushing a record number of Ohio’s public libraries to seek local tax levies as they struggle to keep branches open and avoid cutting services.

The Youngstown-area library system is the latest to ask voters for help paying the cost of day-to-day operations.

The Ross County/Chillicothe library system will start instituting cuts after this week’s library board meeting.

The library system serving Cleveland and the surrounding county is raising the fines for overdue books, cutting staff and eliminating Sunday hours at many branches.

Lobbyists for Ohio’s public libraries say Gov. Ted Strickland’s latest round of proposed spending cuts would dramatically hurt library patrons. 

A children’s author who also volunteered at a children’s library has pleaded not guilty to multiple child pornography charges.

A federal law requiring that all children’s books be tested for the presence of lead is going to be a daunting task for some libraries.

A southwestern Ohio public library that had barred a couple from holding a financial planning seminar because they intended to quote the Bible has settled a lawsuit brought by the couple.