Ten minutes spent petting a dog can make a world of difference to a stressed-out college student—especially during finals week. To help students relax, Wallace Library is hosting a therapy-dog event ...

Violet Keller leaned toward Bailey, a Boston terrier resting quietly beside her, and held up a picture from her book. For a moment, the reading stopped. Violet, a6-year-old fromOldsmar, was more ...

A long-faced pup has been making the rounds on social media recently – and gaining a lot of fans along the way. Sting, a 10-year-old greyhound, was making one of this visits to the Ramsey County ...

For the next few weeks, the Paul Pratt Memorial Library is going to the dogs. Children’s librarian Sharon Moody has invited local therapy dogs to the children’s room to listen to young readers — and ...

Mary Hall was walking through the library recently when she saw a familiar sight: a toddler having a meltdown while waiting in the checkout line. Thankfully, Hall, assistant director of the Bedford ...

When a Golden Retriever named Life of Riley goes to the library, he’s eager to hear a book. “His owner, Nancy Aderman, will tell him his going to the library, and he will literally jump out of his fur ...

There's a new twist on the free, "take a book, leave a book" little libraries seen around Massachusetts. At the Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge, there's a library for dogs. The motto here is "Take ...