AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

The city is investing up to $140,000 in a marketing push after its first attempt yielded no viable proposals. The city of Clearwater has invited museums, planetariums or performing arts institutions ...

Twelve of the 21 branches in the Montgomery County Public Libraries system will be closed on Sundays beginning Jan. 11, county officials said, as the system scales back hours to address staffing ...

GREENVILLE — Greenville County has 12 library locations, but the system offers more than just books. More than 1 million people visited local library branches last fiscal year, according to Greenville ...

Enhancing literacy for kindergarteners through fifth graders turned into a community project, as leadership of the Waukegan High School Class of 2025 worked toward the delivery of “little free ...

AURORA, Ill. (WLS) -- Police in Aurora said they are taking a zero-tolerance approach to celebratory gunfire this New Year's Eve. The department plans to use Shot-Spotter gunfire detection technology ...

As the year comes to a close, New York City’s public libraries have revealed the books New Yorkers checked out the most in 2025. For the second year in a row, the city’s three library systems — the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — 2025 was a tumultuous year for Ohio’s libraries, between the dismantling of a decades-old state funding system and millions of dollars in financial cuts. Looking ahead to the new year ...

On Dec. 12, the Garfield County Board of County Commissioners interviewed 12 candidates for three Garfield County Public Library District trustee positions. Every applicant receives a packet that ...

A sleigh led by a team of reindeer tears through the sky, buffeted by turbulence, and crashes near a party of Dungeons & Dragons adventurers. A small group of Kringle Elves has escaped from a horrible ...

Federal funding for libraries and museums has been reinstated nine months after the Trump administration first sought to eliminate the agency that provides that money. The initial move sparked concern ...