A community library is to close under plans to transform library services across the Birmingham City Council area. Sutton ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

as well as Birmingham-specific problems such as an equal pay fiasco and the disastrous implementation of a new IT and finance system. The consultation page on the revised library proposals can be ...

Birmingham’s bibliophiles will soon be able to browse over 400,000 books in the city’s new library, which opens its doors to the public next week. Designed by Dutch practice Mecanoo Architecten, who ...

As the new £189m Library of Birmingham prepares to open, hundreds of people have been testing the building to check it can cope with the hordes waiting to see it. When it opens, the building will ...

Birmingham's museums did not comment on the possibility of opening a new venue. The library is not the only building that is being lost in the Paradise redevelopment. The 150-year-old home of the ...

Tens of thousands of books at a new £190million library cannot be ... to access the high shelves when the state-of-the-art Library of Birmingham opened its doors six months ago.

The Birmingham Public Library spent $4,435 on a six-month national search for a new library director that resulted in no one being hired. No outside search firm was conducted to perform the ...

What, I wonder, would they have made of Brum’s bold new library? Neville Chamberlain, in a spasm of civic aggrandisement, thought Birmingham the Paris of the Midlands (although it is noteworthy ...

The new library in Centenary Square was designed by Dutch architects Mecanoo and opened on 3 September 2013. September 1865 - Birmingham's first public library opened to great acclaim ...

"We have just launched this new service in the last few weeks and are seeing its use pick up and be enjoyed by our library users," said Interim library Director Sandi Lee. "The Birmingham Public ...

The main library in Sutton Coldfield is to close with the city council giving three reasons for the decision. The library, ...