A Pew study released Thursday has some good news for America’s libraries—namely that Americans seem to love them—but perhaps even better news for library users. According to Pew, the more people are ...

At the American Library Association’s 2019 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., June 23, three OCLC staffers gave a preview of the directions in which the nonprofit library cooperative’s discovery ...

Libraries are complicated. They have a maze of departments, a specific method for retrieving books, and many rooms with different purposes: public and staff areas, service desks, and storage areas for ...

In the Internet age, there’s been no shortage of talk about the future of libraries, and much speculation about where libraries fit in the increasingly digital-rich media market for American consumers ...

This page includes sample language for sharing your library user type quiz with your community or group, including sample language for email and social media sharing, an embeddable widget for your ...

Libraries are in great flux as information is shifting from the analog age to the digital age, as people’s need to acquire knowledge shifts, and as Americans’ interests in personal enrichment and ...

Local bookworms will no longer have to worry about remembering to bring their library cards when they visit their local branch thanks to a new app launched by Palo Alto City Library. The app, which ...

Damian Lodge is affiliated with the Australian Library and Information Association. What place do e-readers – and in particular ebooks – hold in the reading behaviour of Australia’s 10 million public ...

Libraries are thriving. Or maybe libraries are struggling. While the Washington Post declared 2022 "the golden age of public libraries," London-based library advocate Tim Coates told the Institute of ...

The advent of digital information and the expansion of online library services have ushered in a transformative era for users with disabilities. Web accessibility, underpinned by the principles of ...

Public libraries level the playing field. They ensure that everyone has access to books — not just those who can afford to purchase them. More than 7.4 million patrons of the city and county library ...