National Library Week is April 7-13 this year, a time to recognize the many ways in which libraries enrich lives and to highlight the essential role that libraries and library staff play in ...

The Contra Costa County Library system is celebrating a record-breaking year for digital checkouts in 2025, reaching an extraordinary 3,045,601 checkouts via Overdrive’s Libby app. Library Lines: ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. (KGO) -- It may take several days to recover from a ransomware attack that has shuttered the online network linking all branches Contra Costa County Library branches and the Martinez ...

MARTINEZ — Library cards, book checkouts and adult literacy programs have surged across Contra Costa County — breaking numerous department records, despite being provided — free of charge — by the ...

MARTINEZ, Calif. - Contra Costa County Library officials are apologizing for some persisting service interruptions stemming from last week's ransomware attack. The library system issued an outage ...

CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. - The Contra Costa County library system announced a temporary limitation at all library branches and the Martinez administrative offices following a cyber security ...

Contra Costa County supervisors decided Tuesday to slash operating hours across the county’s library system and eliminate dozens of full- and part-time jobs after cities indicated they can’t afford to ...

Not surprisingly, online business at Contra Costa County libraries boomed in 2020. The library just released the 2020 version of its annual usage report, which said that just because the pandemic ...