An interesting trend has been unfolding in academic libraries. The library has been welcoming new neighbors. Specifically, programs that support student and faculty success such as math emporiums, ...

Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis. On a sweater-weather Saturday in June, a crowd of ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - This week marks the “right to read”. It’s part of “National Library Week”. Sioux City area libraries want to assure readers they’ll continue providing books that may be “banned” by ...

Libraries have been around for nearly 5,000 years, and sometimes it seems like they haven’t changed much since, at least in the public imagination. You know: hushed, slightly musty spaces smelling of ...

This piece was previously published on Popula. On a cold Saturday last November I needed a place to work, and decided to head to a nearby branch of the Albany Public Library, a few blocks from my home ...