Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

CHICAGO - Fifteen new and renovated libraries feature in American Libraries’ 2025 Library Design Showcase. The showcase appears in the magazine’s September/October issue, available online today. The ...

The teaching team at Kelvin Smith Library can support research skills development through instruction sessions, self-paced tutorials, and other learning activities. In addition to skills such as ...

Git isn’t hard to learn. Moreover, with a Git GUI such as Atlassian’s Sourcetree, and a SaaS code repository such as Bitbucket, mastery of the industry’s most powerful version control tools is within ...

Correction: A previous version of this article had a different date of establishment for the Institute of Museum and Libraries. IMLS was established in 1996. In an executive order last week, the Trump ...

Weeding, or culling old, damaged or outdated books, is standard practice in libraries. But in some cases it is being used to remove books because of the viewpoint they express. By Elizabeth A. Harris ...

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 ...

Go way beyond books: You can try 3D printers, Cricut machines, e-bikes, GoPros, power tools, and much more by simply joining your local library. I'm an expert in software and work-related issues, and ...

Reading a book is commonly seen as an individual activity, yet libraries have evolved to offer more than just book-lending services in the digital age. Public libraries have transformed into ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

According to most recent data from the Institute of Museum and Library services annual Public Library Survey, released earlier this month, gate counts at U.S. public libraries (that is, in-person ...

Arduino libraries, like libraries for other programming languages, help easily extend the range of functions available to users in the standard integrated development environment (IDE). They are ...