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“There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library. A library outranks any other one ...

Communities lose a lot when library budgets are cut. Case in point: New York. Last month, the presidents of the city’s ...

A time traveler from 1895 (the year H.G. Wells published his sci-fi classic The Time Machine) would likely have a tough ...

It’s no secret that libraries have had to change drastically over the past few years — but change is something that ...

In the current digital age, it’s easy to overlook the importance of librarians, but they are some of the most ...

It was a pivotal moment in the early history of the modern environmental movement. On April 22, 1970 — long before ...

Let's be honest; there's really never a bad time to celebrate libraries, or to take some time to consider the role that ...

Here's an alarming statistic: a 2021 study by researchers at Australian National University warned that, of the ...

The modern public library is a really a community gathering place, where patrons come to learn, to meet with ...