Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

Some libraries aren't just places to borrow books — they're destinations with deep history and architecture that tell stories beyond the pages. The 1000 Libraries Awards 2025 highlights some of the ...

ST. CLOUD — For library staff in central Minnesota’s Great River Regional Library system, recent moves from the Trump administration are calling into question the future of beloved library services.

Perhaps the public library is an institution you take for granted. Or maybe you’re paying close to attention to how libraries, and the books they display on shelves, have become an unlikely ...

With the internet putting a seemingly infinite supply of answers, arguments, and amusements at our fingertips, do we still need libraries? The question isn’t as rhetorical as it once seemed. As shown ...

BOROUGHWIDE — Brooklyn Public Library marked three years of Books Unbanned on April 10, a national program to combat censorship. The initiative provides teens an e-card allowing them to access the ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides grants to libraries and museums nationwide, has been effectively shuttered and its staff placed on administrative leave. This ...

Newly filed legislation would allow North Carolina public school librarians to be criminally prosecuted on charges that they’re providing library books that are “harmful to minors.” The legislation ...

When Newark Public Library officials held a ribbon cutting last week for a pair of new rooms intended to expand access to information for its users, speakers were accompanied by both an American Sign ...