The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has designated August 9 as the ...
2024-08-05
Filling in the gaps to improve diversity, equity and inclusion at libraries
Around the world, libraries exist to facilitate equitable access to reading materials and valuable information. They ...
2024-07-22
Artificial intelligence in academia: chatbot applications in libraries
We live in the age of robots. Thanks to advances in AI, it is now theoretically possible to, say, make an entire ...
2024-07-17
Public libraries and cybersecurity: Keeping patrons' data safe
Cybersecurity is one of the growing concerns of our digital age, and public libraries are not immune to attacks or ...
2024-07-15
Summer reads: Library activities keep kids engaged while school's out
It's called the "summer slide". That might sound like a piece of seasonal playground equipment, but it's actually ...
2024-07-08
Providing trusted sources of information: Public libraries and democracy
“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library. A library outranks any other one ...
2024-07-02
Diverse perspectives: Academic libraries help shape global citizens
What does it mean to be global citizen? It really depends on who you ask. As higher-education policy expert Madeleine ...
2024-06-27
Four ways to make a public library budget go farther
Communities lose a lot when library budgets are cut. Case in point: New York. Last month, the presidents of the city’s ...
2024-06-17
The evolution of libraries to the 21st century (Infographic)
A time traveler from 1895 (the year H.G. Wells published his sci-fi classic The Time Machine) would likely have a tough ...
