The Urban Libraries Council this week released its second annual “Library Insights” survey of member libraries, which offered a fairly positive “data-informed view” of “post-pandemic performance for ...

I grew up down the street from my local library, so I spent a lot of my childhood there, either hidden away in the stacks reading books, using the internet to access Myspace, or meeting up with ...

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 ...

For decades, scholars and planners alike have been deeply interested in figuring out how to create third spaces — the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals ...