If libraries didn't already exist, our current political system would never allow us to build them. The concept it too revolutionary: All of the knowledge and entertainment of humanity made available, ...

American libraries are buffeted by cross currents. Citizens believe that libraries are important community institutions and profess interest in libraries offering a range of new program possibilities.

For National Library Week, explore the tools of a vintage library circulation desk. In 1918, they might not have had computers to circulate and track library books, but their paper-based systems were ...

“Libraries have always been places where barriers to access knowledge have been broken,” says Alvaro Sauceda Nuñez, ...

Americans’ love affair with libraries has only grown during the pandemic—and so has their book borrowing. According to OverDrive, which libraries use to loan out digital material, weekly e-book ...

Families could soon lose access to 2,700 children's books at Rutherford County libraries, a Jan. 22 ACLU news release asserts.

The first time I stepped foot into a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) library was at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee in 1994. As I walked across campus, I remember being ...

Most of us think about Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat or Martin Luther King Jr.’s March on Washington when we think about the civil rights movement. Lesser known is the issue of library ...

The Montana State Library Commission voted 5-1 (with one abstention) in July 2023 to rescind its membership in the American Library Association because of the ALA’s then-president: a self-proclaimed ...