The best baby books for infants are sturdy, simple, and made to be shared: high-contrast books for newborns, then bright board books with faces, textures, flaps, and rhythmic text as… read more →
Professional Skeptics Librarians have a long record of adopting new information technology, from online catalogs to e-books and public internet access. Generative AI has been different. As chatbots and AI… read more →
Halloween is a holiday built on storytelling, which makes the library a natural place to celebrate it. Inside a prison, a small seasonal program can do more than pass the… read more →
Since 2005, LibLime has built its reputation on a single premise: library technology should be shaped by librarians, not imposed on them [1]. Through its flagship platform, Bibliovation, the company… read more →
As millions of students prepare to return to classrooms this fall, school librarians are quietly running their own back-to-school marathon — one that starts weeks before the first bell rings.… read more →
Origins The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) traces its roots to December 2010, when Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society announced a research and planning initiative for a… 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 →
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 →
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 →
Navigating the evolving information profession in 2025–2026 You crossed the finish line. The coursework is behind you, the capstone is submitted, and your ALA-accredited diploma is on its way.… read more →