On a recent Saturday, a writer for Forbes, Panos Mourdoukoutas, suggested something that only sounds good if you have money: that libraries are a taxpayer drain. Forbes took down the article over the backlash, but that’s OK. I’m a... Read More

Summer is always a hard time for disasters, but this year’s news cycle has, for several reasons, been particularly catastrophic. When there’s not a hurricane, there’s a wildfire. When there’s not a wildfire, there’s a game of... Read More

White supremacists march near the library in Charlottesville, Virginia. Photo courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center. John Halliday, director of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library (JMRL), is not sure how to get racists away from... Read More

Flannery Crump of Aurora Public Library presents her findings on Little Free Libraries in June at the American Library Assocation's Annual Conference in Chicago. They’re cute, they’re tiny, they’re full of free books. Little Free... Read More

I just returned from the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in Chicago, and, as always, I left with renewed admiration for everything librarians do for their communities. Every single local politician who wants to defund... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by librarian Anna Call is part of our special focus on LGBTQ issues for the month of June. Thirty years ago, which is within my lifetime, we would not even have had this conversation. People knew that... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by librarian Anna Call is part of our special focus on Summer Reading for the month of May. There is a font of summer reading themes, including lists, bibliographical materials, and graphics. It is... Read More

Editor’s Note: This commentary by librarian Anna Call is part of our special focus on Summer Reading for the month of May. Kids know the ritual well: receive list, borrow books, ignore books until the last week of summer vacation. Even... Read More