As libraries work to upgrade and diversify offerings in the digital age, many have to carefully navigate publisher ...

Baker and Taylor is one of very few companies that do book-distribution for libraries — companies that act as the middle man between libraries and publishers. But a few months ago, the company ...

There is little question that public libraries today are a vital institution—a point being driven home in cruel fashion as libraries around the country are forced to close in an effort to blunt the ...

The audit’s findings are based on a nationally representative survey of about 16,400 public libraries across all 50 states, ...

Dayna Williams-Capone, director of library services for the city of Victoria, Texas, has worked in public libraries for 25 years. In all of that time, she says, she never faced demands to remove books ...

Libraries have been in flux since the dawn of the digital age. They face changes in the materials they provide, in use of their services, in the composition of their patron populations, and in demands ...

Libraries are in great flux as information is shifting from the analog age to the digital age, as people’s need to acquire knowledge shifts, and as Americans’ interests in personal enrichment and ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The Urban Libraries Council this week released its second annual “Library Insights” survey of member libraries, which offered a fairly ...

SANTA CLARITA, Calif. A private company in Maryland has taken over public libraries in ailing cities in California, Oregon, Tennessee and Texas, growing into the country’s fifth-largest library system ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides grants to libraries and museums nationwide, has been effectively shuttered and its staff placed on administrative leave. This ...

Imagine waking up one day to a targeted smear campaign insinuating that you, a school librarian, are advocating the teaching of anal sex to 11-year-olds. This is exactly what happened to me in 2022 ...

Olivia Young is a journalist and slow travel advocate. Her favorite travel days usually involve vegan food, wildlife sightings, and an occasional liability waiver. Libraries around the world feature ...