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How Kent District Library supports its community by listening to their needs

Kent District Library has always embraced the unusual. Since 2013, they’ve been expanding the definition of what a ...

How Edinburgh City Libraries protects and empowers its most vulnerable populations

Edinburgh City Libraries is used to playing an active role in their community. People rely on its multiple branches — ...

4 things libraries need to budget for in the next 5 years (CHEAT SHEET)

New ideas, no matter how brilliant, take planning and resources to execute. By presenting their library’s budget to ...

How today’s libraries are funded: 5 innovative ideas (CHEAT SHEET)

Libraries are core institutions for communities around the world. With a mission to democratize access to knowledge and ...

What role do librarians play in the fight for media literacy?

It’s been heartening to see a rise in literacy around the world in the past 50 years. But we’re facing a new challenge, ...

How the South African Library for the Blind is making content accessible with PressReader

Around the world, libraries do the vital work of making sure everyone has access to knowledge and information — and ...

The future of digital newspapers in travel, what’s happening now?

Now is the time to get the world moving again. Now is the time to reunite families, friends, colleagues and communities ...

8 ways COVID-19 has changed library programming forever

It’s been, to say the least, a tough time for libraries. COVID-19 threw physical locations, services, and programming ...

New safety protocols for the post-pandemic library 

It’s no surprise that libraries were able to pivot so quickly to serve their neighborhoods during the pandemic as The ...