You don’t have to be a game designer to run a game jam at your library, said Rebecca Strang, outreach and engagement librarian at North Central College’s Oesterle Library in Naperville, Illinois. You ...

For International Games Month, we look at how games and gaming act as community-building, teaching, and self-improvement tools.

Award-winning chef Sean Sherman's second cookbook, Turtle Island, highlights the diversity of Indigenous food.

During my time as a chapter leader in Iowa, I witnessed firsthand how swiftly state and regional chapters can mobilize. When a bill that threatened codified funding for public libraries was proposed ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime fixture in the library technology industry, will shutter.

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 ...

Since President Trump retook office on January 20, libraries and librarianship have been assaulted via executive orders and other actions. While the legality of many of these actions is still being ...

With the acceleration of human-driven climate change, libraries are playing an increased role in helping their communities navigate environmental calamities. The downtown public library in Asheville, ...

Council cochairs Erin Berman and Sara Dallas explained the reasons for the changes: “This is a crucial moment for our profession, as our library community faces severe challenges and threats. Our ...

Social workers who connect patrons to needed physical and emotional care. Quiet rooms for rest and relaxation. Robotic pets that purr away patrons’ anxieties. And grief groups to support patrons over ...