Solidarity amid Uncertainty Library Marketplace offerings highlight a need for strategic impact By Marshall Breeding | July 23, 2025 ...

Library Learning Center at Texas Southern University in Houston. Photo: Kayla Hartzog Welcome to the 2020 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries ...

A panel of academic librarians convened by the Reference and User Services Association explores how to itegrate antiracism in cataloging.

As technology changes library cataloging, we look back at its history and forward into its future.

The first round of Libraries Transforming Communities: Accessible Small and Rural Communities grants supported 240 small and rural libraries, ...

American Libraries travels through time to outline our country’s history of censorship—and those who have defended the right to read.

2025 Youth Media Award winners announced—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, and Printz awards.

Film programming can seem more complicated than other kinds of programming. How do you choose films to show? What equipment should you use? How do you market your programs? Where do you begin? The ...

American Libraries' 2023 Library Design Showcase celebrates new and renovated libraries that address patron needs in unique ways.

Some of the entries in Nashville (Tenn.) Public Library's Geofilter design contest for teens. Much has changed in the five years since Snapchat arrived on the social media scene. It’s no longer the ...

“You don’t even have to bring the author to your town anymore,” says Johannes Neuer, associate director of marketing for NYPL. “Google Hangouts are the perfect places to create brand engagement.” When ...

The Library of Things pull-out poster, illustrated by Brian Mead. Libraries loaning “stuff” isn’t a new concept. Framed paintings were available for checkout at the Newark (N.J.) Public Library back ...