On Saturday, ALA's Public Programs Office and Office for Intellectual Freedom presented “Managing Challenges, Maximizing Impact: Policies and Practices for Controversial Programming.” Using the ...

Donations of books to your library have always been vital to our health. They add breadth and depth to our collection. They also provide pleasure to buyers and profits at the Friends of the Library’s ...

But Quiner, of the Alaska Library Association, provided a few additional examples of libraries that have lost funding so far. Among them is the Kuskokwim Consortium Library, where Quiner serves as ...

SPS librarians are upset about a plan to cut 10 library jobs next year, ... For example, Central will have 1. ... We believe in the importance of the library. Library programming will not be ...

One example noted in the report was the Salt Lake City Public Library’s Digital Navigators Program, which offers technical support from troubleshooting to one-on-one digital skills training.

The program is an example of the increasing role public libraries nationwide play as social service providers in their communities. Expanding the reach of “the last public spaces” ...

Nate Stone is the program coordinator for the ideaLAB at Denver Public Library, recently recognized with a national innovation award for its programming camps for teens. When he first offered ...

Take library education, for example. As professional education programs evolved from “library schools” into “schools of information” in the last 30 years, most have focused on “information” as defined ...

Tacoma is one example, where officials gave $750,000 — roughly $26 per student — to update school-library collections this year. The association's study and other research show a connection ...