Despite the ongoing pandemic, Friends of the Library groups still have a commitment to support their libraries and to have an outreach to the community. Over at the Morley Public Library in ...

The holiday season reminds us to be grateful for all that we have motivating us to strive to be better. All year we work to make what is great about Long Beach even better, and there is no better ...

Speaking to a class of library school students about work with youth and families offers librarians an opportunity to see what is going on in the real world of libraries. A presentation can cover ...

The library offers events and resources to make reading fun. Reading for fun helps the brain to develop in young readers, setting them up for success later in life. Early childhood learning is a ...

It pays to be both bipartisan and persistent, according to a Democratic governor who once sneaked into the White House in the back of U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer’s car. “I was rolled back there like a ...

Some 61% of Americans under age 30 have a library card, similar to the rate for the general population. Younger Americans’ rates of library usage are generally similar to that of older adults, and in ...

I sometimes hear people ask why we still need libraries, or comment about everything being available online or how they haven’t visited the library since they were a child. These comments never fail ...

Kristen Berthiaume remembers when George Floyd was murdered, with body cam footage revealing his struggles to breathe and cries for his mother as a police officer knelt on his neck. Berthiaume ...

As the pandemic has limited in-person library services this year, many libraries are relying on their websites more than ever to deliver the services their communities need and expect. But a website ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—America’s struggle for independence that began 250 years ago will take center stage next month as Mississippi State’s Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library hosts the screening of a ...