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The article highlights The New York Times Company's growth in digital subscribers, a surge in adjusted operating profit driven by subscriber increases, and its strategic focus on offering bundled services to expand revenue per user.

The article focuses on the expansion of the public libraries in New York City in the digital age with the addition of weekend and evening hours, employment of more librarians and staff, and expansion of their catalog. Topics discussed include the popularity of the story time at the libraries in Bronx and Manhattan, the statement of city councilman Andy King regarding the impact of budget cut on libraries, and the growth of the number of users at the Brooklyn Public Library from 2015.

The article reports that holders of New York Public Library or Brooklyn Library card can have free access to Kanopy, a streaming service that offers 30,000 movies that includes films from the Criterion Collection.

The article offers the author's insights on the lack of Internet access in Bronx, New York Citywhich people borrows from libraries.

AMID the civil hush of the New Main San Francisco Public Library, I recently experienced an aspect to writing I'd all but forgotten: noise. It happened in a workspace called the Typewriter Room. Operating the machine that gives the room its name, I struck the ''T'' key, then the ''H'' key, and for the first time in at least two decades, I was rewarded with the bracing clackety-clack of analog-era content production. When the New Main opened in 1996, its boosters touted it as a ''high-tech information retrieval center.'' So did its critics. It had 300 computer workstations, additional electrical outlets for patrons who brought their own laptops, a sleek and airy layout with sightlines that made it the envy of every high-security prison warden in the land, and apparently, hidden in some low-tech, off-message nook, a Typewriter Room. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

If ordinary people were caught doing what Valerie Solanas did, they would probably have their library cards taken away and would be admonished: Don't even think of asking for another book here at the New York Public Library. Ever. But Valerie Solanas -- a feminist loner mainly remembered for shooting Andy Warhol -- was not an ordinary library patron. She marked up a book's cover and several pages inside. Apparently, no one realized what she was doing and alerted the staff. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anticipating a flood of library patrons who received e-readers as holiday gifts, the New York Public Library will offer a free service that teaches users how to download e-books, library officials said. Free e-books are available for New York Public Library members and can be downloaded without a visit to the library. Patrons can find instructions on downloading e-books and other digital materials, including video and music, at nypl.org/ebookcentral. The library will also offer in-person help from Jan. 4 to 13 at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, and at the Mid-Manhattan Library, at 455 Fifth Avenue, at 40th Street. Nearly 22,000 e-books are available through the New York Public Library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Another major publisher has pushed back against making its e-books available to library users. Penguin Book Group said it would ''delay the availability'' of new e-books to libraries because of security concerns. ''Penguin's aim is to always connect writers and readers, and with that goal in mind, we remain committed to working closely with our business partners and the library community to forge a distribution model that is secure and viable,'' Erica Glass, a spokeswoman for Penguin, said in a statement issued Monday. ''In the meantime, we want to assure you that physical editions of our new titles will continue to be available in libraries everywhere.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At San Jose's Seven Trees Library, books are coming and going, even though the building is closed. One of four new or soon-to-be-finished branches of the San Jose Public Library system, Seven Trees was completed last fall. It has new shelves and a technology center -- but no staff to run it until the financially pressed city can find a way to pay salaries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In the Illinois towns of Joliet and Palos Park, the economic downturn has pushed the public libraries into the grocery business, of sorts. Patrons with overdue books and hefty outstanding fines were recently given a way to clear their records: Donate canned goods or other groceries through the library to local shelters and food pantries. Dozens of library patrons in both towns jumped at the opportunity. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Kid-savvy resorts in the Caribbean, perhaps hoping to grab the attention of increasingly screen-addicted guests, are loading on the digital delights. Instead of borrowing a well-thumbed copy of ''Charlotte's Web'' from the resort library, junior bookworms at the Gansevoort Turks + Caicos on Providenciales can check out Sony Readers downloaded with virtual page-turners like ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' and ''The Jungle Book,'' free of charge. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A group of library users and residents of Midtown Manhattan are fuming over what they are calling the inept and heartless handling of the Donnell Library, which was known for its rich holdings of movies, music, foreign language materials and children's books until it closed last year. The New York Public Library shut the Donnell branch, which opened in October 1955, last August, as part of a deal announced in November 2007 to sell the building to Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. for $59 million. The five-story building, at 20 West 53rd Street, was to be razed to make way for an 11-story hotel, but a new library branch would occupy space on the first floor and in the basement. The deal fell apart in March, however, with the hotel company backing out, citing the financial and credit crises. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article presents information on several issues related to business and politics, discussed in several periodicals. "Harvard Business Review," the periodical, presents an analysis of service transactions. A brief sketch of customer services is presented by the periodical "Budget Travel." The periodical "Marie Claire," urges its readers to return their library books, which are overdue.

Mentions the nearly four-year-old child, Robert Clark Bailey, who was the first patron at the renovated Great Kills Branch of the New York Public Library on Staten Island. Indication that Bailey's great-grandmother, Florence Ripley, was the first librarian; History of the Great Kills Branch; The cost of renovation.

Reports on a new study which found that law enforcement officials in the U.S. have made at least 200 formal and informal inquiries to libraries for information on reading material and other internal matters since October 2001.

Examines a moratorium declared on the E-Rate program which gives grants to public libraries and schools for high speed Internet service. Federal Communications Commission in conjunction with the White House which shut down the grants until the program can come up with new rules on how it spends the money; Possibility that as much as $1 billion in new grants will be affected; What it means for libraries and schools; Background on the formation of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) which runs the program; Lawmakers who claim the company is laden with fraud and waste; F.C.C. reduction of the level of contributions which can be made by the phone companies to the USAC; Reasons for the immediate cause of the crisis.

Reports on increased popularity and funding of libraries that offer high-speed internet access. Story of the closure of libraries in Houma, Louisiana prior to the arrival of computers; Revitalization of the town's libraries thanks to the addition of 81 online computers; Comments from Mary Cosper LeBoeuf, the head librarian; Fundamental change to libraries' traditional goals; Speed of the transition to computer-based libraries; Impact of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation; Benefit to other library services.

Discusses the issue of using computers in public libraries in Phoenix, Arizona to view explicit materials via the Internet.

Discusses how, as filtering laws fail, U.S. librarians are finding ways to restrict Internet access to pornography by children. Approaches used by various libraries; Comments of librarians and library directors; Why the Children's Internet Protection Act and other government attempts to limit Internet access have failed; How the issue is being dealt with at the local level; The emerging standard for libraries. INSET: New Guidelines For Librarians And Families.

Reports that United States federal court panel struck down a law requiring libraries to filter the Internet for material harmful to minors. Opinion of this court that such technology blocks so much objectionable material that it would violate the first amendment rights of library users; Reaction of civil liberties advocates to the ruling; Goals of the Children's Internet Pornography Act of 2001. INSET: Excerpts From Opinion Rejecting Internet Law.

Reports on the violation of a Florida law that guarantees confidentiality to library patrons and a cardinal principle of librarians never to tell the police about who uses their rooms and what books they check out.

Focuses on the 113th Street public library branch near Columbia University in New York City, and the patrons and librarians there. Description of the library and patrons; Comments on how little money librarians make in New York City; The importance of libraries in society; Plans to move the library to a bigger space; Comments from librarians.