GUILDERLAND, N.Y. - A new way to borrow audiobooks from the library involves no CDs, no car trips, no fines and no risk of being shushed.

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday on Scottsdale Civic Center Mall to dedicate the newly installed sculpture of Winfield Scott.

New York Times bestselling author, J.A. Jance, will be at Mesa’s Red Mountain Library, 635 N. Power Road, 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday. Jance will be hosting a book signing to promote her latest mystery novel “Deadly Stakes.”

December 14, 2004

January 9. 2004

SAN FRANCISCO - The University of California is joining Google Inc.'s book-scanning project, throwing the weight of another 100 academic libraries behind an ambitious venture that's under legal attack for alleged copyright infringement.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright battle over how much material can be scanned and indexed from five major libraries.

Language for a long-awaited proposed ballot initiative calling for a statewide ban on smoking inside all public buildings — including bars and restaurants — is nearly ready.

October 19, 2004

Families can learn about the effects of Alzheimer’s and receive encouragement through the Alzheimer’s Workshop held at the Mesa Main Library, 64 E. First St., on Wednesday, May 22 from 11 a.m. to noon.

If you haven’t read popular southern Arizona author J.A. Jance’s last book, 2010’s “Queen of the Night,” you’d better hurry, because the New York Times Bestselling author is out with another in February. “Fatal Error,” the latest Ali Reynolds mystery, comes out Feb. 1, and Jance is on tour to support the novel.

NEW YORK - Hip-hop entrepreneur Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs on Thursday gave the city $1 million he raised for public schools by running the New York City Marathon earlier this month.

NEW YORK - "American Idol" winner Fantasia Barrino will perform at next week's 2004 CFDA Fashion Awards. Some 400 designers, editors, retailers and guests are expected to attend the Council of Fashion Designers of America Awards, to be presented Monday at The New York Public Library.

NEW YORK - A pregnant teenager dependent on her library's Internet terminals is apt to find some sites that discuss abortion blocked now that the Supreme Court has endorsed software filters for computers at public libraries.

New York artist Donald Lipski has won a chance to create the most visible public art in Scottsdale at the site of the Scottsdale Waterfront, a source close to the selection process has confirmed.

New York artist Donald Lipski has won a chance to create the most visible public art in Scottsdale at the site of the Scottsdale Waterfront, a source close to the selection process has confirmed.

Tim Wadham saw something disturbing at the library: Kids running to the computers after school to play video games.

Various astronomy concepts and new discoveries will be discussed during this monthly lecture series at 8 p.m. Friday in the library classroom at the Southeast Regional Library, 775 N. Greenfield Road.

Outdoor concert

NEW YORK - Kristin Davis spilled the beans about the upcoming season of "Sex and the City": The clothes will have a retro look.

A key goal in any democracy and certainly in ours is openness and transparency in government. Sadly, we’re rapidly going backwards in that regard.

So President Obama wants to end so-called “tax loopholes” for American oil and gas companies? Sounds like a good idea, until you learn that what the president is really asking. The “Close the Big Oil Tax Loopholes Act” essentially asks American taxpayers and businesses to shoulder the economic brunt of the Administration’s ambitious green energy objectives.

Youth spring ball sign-ups