The Osterville Village Library in Barnstable has rolled out a new way to check out books: a vending machine. The AutoLend Library, as it's called, works like a Redbox kiosk. People can browse through ...

Here, I would like to look back on the birth of "Koropon," a handmade machine at the library that was launched as a spring ...

A reader wants the latest thriller by Stephen King. With the swipe of a library card on a machine and the entry of the book’s row and number code on a keypad, a mechanical arm grabs the item and sends ...