Welcome to the 2021 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways. That this year’s ...

1. An “Organized” Effort to Ban Books in Schools and Libraries New headlines virtually every day tell the story: the nation is in the midst of an alarming, unprecedented spike in attempts to ban books ...

Five libraries earned this year’s American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects. The winning projects include programs that offered online ...

The Obama Presidential Center and its accompanying library will finally have a groundbreaking ceremony in Chicago in late September 2021. The events will be divided into two days, concluding with an ...

In 2021, the Dag Hammarskjöld Library considerably increased its global reach and initiated new ways of collaborating with UN and research communities during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The ...

For its resilience and creativity through the pandemic, the Anaheim Public Library was recently named the Gale and Library Journal’s 2021 Library of the Year. Virtual programs for seniors, meals for ...

Preview of the Winter Park Library & Events Center, on Thursday, December 9, 2021. The new Library and Events Center will have an Open House this Saturday, December 11 from 10am-3pm; opening day is ...

It’s unclear who checked out “New Chronicles of Rebecca” by Kate Douglas Wiggin from a library in Boise, or who had it all these decades. But the book remained in immaculate shape. By Alyssa Lukpat In ...