New research has highlighted the important role public libraries play in supporting communities, helping people build ...

In fact, there were some interesting old rules American libraries enforced that sound absurd today. Older reading rooms had ...

When we took a look at the nation’s declining reading habits, our struggling bookstores and the prodigious number of books consumed by America’s top 1 percent of readers, scores of you wrote in with a ...

The Urban Libraries Council this week released its second annual “Library Insights” survey of member libraries, which offered a fairly positive “data-informed view” of “post-pandemic performance for ...

For decades, scholars and planners alike have been deeply interested in figuring out how to create third spaces — the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals ...