On October 8, 2026, the Swedish Academy named Canadian poet, essayist, and classicist Anne Carson its newest literature laureate [1][2]. Her win ends a five-year stretch honoring memoir, drama, poetic… read more →
Libraries have survived every information revolution, from microfilm to the open web, but artificial intelligence is testing the profession like few previous technologies. The question is no longer if AI… read more →
The Right Book, Found Faster For years, the standard advice for reluctant readers was simply to “find the right book.” The problem was that finding it meant wandering the shelves,… read more →
Walk into almost any public library’s children’s room on a weekday morning, and you’ll see something that seems out of step with the times: toddlers sitting cross-legged on a rug,… read more →
Most of us picture a library as a quiet room lined with shelves. Around the world, though, communities have stretched the idea far beyond that: a forest, a person, a… read more →
For many young adults, the public library has quietly become one of the most important stops on the road from adolescence to career. Long past their reputation as quiet rooms… read more →
Every fall and spring, a familiar migration takes place across the library profession. Catalogers, systems librarians, acquisitions staff, and directors pack their bags and head to hotel ballrooms and university… read more →
Librarians have become one of the richest niches in podcasting. Between national library associations, big-city public library systems, and independent librarians talking shop, there is now a full deck of… read more →
While open-source platforms like Koha have made real inroads, proprietary systems still dominate library technology worldwide, particularly among academic, national, and large public library systems. Industry consolidation has concentrated much… read more →
In 2026, libraries are being squeezed from two directions at once: the physical infrastructure of the AI boom and the economic and cultural fallout of the software it powers. Data… read more →