Columbus Metropolitan Library

Nearly half of all books checked out by Columbus libraries are E-books, and that’s a problem. Digital books are more expensive than paper, costing libraries $75 for a two-year license of a single copy.

As part of its 150th birthday celebration, the Columbus Metropolitan Library holds its first Columbus Book Festival this weekend, with more than 200 authors from a variety of literary genres.

In 2010, Franklin County voters approved a $2.8 million continuing levy.

The Columbus Metropolitan Library celebrates its 150th birthday this weekend as a grand opening for a new Gahanna branch library is held Saturday, March 4.

Formerly known as Homework Help Centers, School Help Centers offer students access to staff, computers, printers and other resources to help them study and learn.

Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is partnering with Children’s Hunger Alliance to provide students age 18 and younger with free lunches and snacks this summer.

Most of Columbus Metropolitan Library’s 23 locations will return to regular hours starting on Monday March 21.

Columbus Metropolitan Library locations will reopen on Sundays starting February 20. In early November, CML announced that all 23 locations would close on Sundays due to staffing challenges.

Libraries that had been handing out free antigen tests in December are finding it's hard to stock them now.

More than 5,000 Ohioans died of a drug overdose in 2020, but officials with the Alcohol, Drug, and Mental Health Board of Franklin County are hoping this new effort will help prevent overdose deaths.