In a meeting, New York Public Library President, Anthony Marx, discusses library's role. In a meeting, New York Public Library President, Anthony Marx, discusses library's role. Frederick Wiseman's ...

On September 1, the Public Library Association (PLA) issued its 2020 Public Library Technology Survey report, detailing how libraries are further extending their technology services and resources in ...

The following is a news release from the Idaho Commission for Libraries. BOISE – At its meeting on October 16, Idaho’s board ...

The role of the library is necessarily dependent upon the educational objectives of the institution. Frequently, these are unstated or inadequate. Reference is made to some definitions of objectives ...

A report of a survey of a sample of accredited library school programs to determine their commitment to continuing education, the most common types of CE programs offered by the schools, and the ...

c) what’s a public library? A week ago, if you’d answered “what’s a public library?” I would have offered you a fake smile and asked you to quit reading the column. Now that I’ve visited the Highwood ...

Libraries have long been community gathering spaces where all members of society can gather around the pursuit of knowledge or the entertainment of a good read. But the outmoded function of the ...

What’s a librarian’s role in school when children can no longer go to the library? That’s a question many school librarians across the country had to grapple with when the COVID-19 pandemic forced ...

“If you’re a writer and you have the impulse to put down on paper something that will survive you, you are inextricably connected to what a library means.” —Susan Orlean Practically every modern ...

A culture war is playing out in the small town of Metropolis, Ill., where the public library and a church are battling over the library's role. The issues include prayer in the library and the removal ...

Maureen Hartman was named permanent director of the St. Paul Public Library in May. An English major in college, Hartman said she was bitten by the library bug after volunteering shortly after ...

Lindsay Mattock began a new chapter of her life in mid-January when she took on the role of executive director of the Ligonier Valley Library and returned to her Westmoreland County roots. A native of ...