DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI) - A new LGBTQ Library is now open in Des Moines. The Des Moines Pride Center opened up the Rick Miller LGBTQ Library on Sunday, WOI reports. The center says the shelves are ...

A rainy evening looks like poor weather for a bike ride, but great conditions for tuning up a bicycle in the Iowa City Bike Library’s garage. Folk music plays overhead as a Bike Library staff member ...

Youth bike coordinator Dustin Eubanks (left) helps Maria Ahmed, 13, of Coralville, put air into an inner tube as Maria works to make a bicycle roadworthy during Outspoken Teens night at the Iowa City ...

From award-winners to childhood favorites, find out what Iowa City is reading with a roundup of the most checked out library ...

Over 50 community members gathered at the Iowa City Public Library Thursday night, rallying to save the State Historical Society. Organized by the Iowa Labor History Society and Save Iowa History, the ...

Audrey, Gideon, Rachel and Mary Phillips pick out library books during a visit by the Marion Library’s Bookmobile to Thomas Park on Aug. 26, 2025. The library is one of hundreds in the state to ...

In 1938, as concerns of censorship rose worldwide, Des Moines Public Library Director Forrest Spaulding penned the words that would become the "Library Bill of Rights." The first tenet states: "Books ...

Some libraries just house books, while others are an architectural majesty with the most impressive bibliography to surround yourself with while you study, work, or write that novel. There are many ...

Sam Helmick is Iowa Library Association president and community and access services coordinator for the Iowa City Public Library. Recommendations in Gov. Kim Reynolds' state government reorganization ...

Iowa librarians are pushing back on multiple Republican-led bills that they say would take away local control from public libraries and threaten Iowans' access to information, while supporters favor ...

The State Law Library is located in the Statehouse and is a part of the State Library of Iowa. Librarians are raising concerns about one part of Gov. Kim Reynolds’ reorganization bill that the Iowa ...