Sharing your skill-set Busy professionals, freelancers, and local service providers already solve real problems every day, yet that know-how often stops earning the moment the workday ends. The tension is… read more →
Library boards occupy a peculiar position in civic life. Trustees are volunteers, usually unpaid, who carry fiduciary, strategic, and moral responsibility for an institution that exists to serve everyone in… read more →
Dedication: This article is dedicated to the amazing nurses and doctors at Trinity Hospital Ann Arbor Labor & Delivery, who cared for our baby and me in June. For… read more →
Your Library’s Resources for Future Lawyers Students preparing for law school spend a lot of time and money on test prep courses, application consultants, and study materials. What many overlook… read more →
When the FIFA World Cup kicked off on June 11, 2026, it wasn’t just sports bars and stadiums getting in on the action — public libraries across the United States… read more →
What began in 1995 as a small program mailing free books to children in Sevier County, Tennessee, has become, three decades later, the world’s largest early-childhood book-gifting initiative, reaching children… read more →
Picture the scene: a hushed room lined wall to wall with towering shelves, the faint smell of aging paper hanging in the air like a pleasant ghost, and somewhere in… read more →
The university librarian of the twenty-first century bears little resemblance to the quiet guardian of card catalogs that popular culture once imagined. Today’s academic library professional is a digital navigator,… read more →
Across the United States, a new battlefield has developed around AI infrastructure concerns. Residents fighting proposed data centers in their backyards are increasingly finding a quiet but familiar and powerful… read more →
When a reader places a hold on an ebook at their local library, they rarely think about the financial machinery behind that simple transaction. But for library administrators across North… read more →