October is Health Literacy Month, an observance rooted in the recognition that a majority of people have challenges ...
2023-09-25
How digital resources at libraries can create a better experience for patrons
At PressReader, we focus a lot on how the role libraries play in their communities has shifted, and how it will ...
2023-09-18
Media literacy and civic engagement: empowering citizens to participate in democratic discourse
As we have explored in a number of previous articles, media literacy is a critical skill in our digital age for a ...
2023-09-11
Library outreach: teaching media literacy to underserved communities
As we gear up for UNESCO's Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2023 (which officially takes place in Jordan from ...
2023-09-05
Faced with budget cuts, academic libraries must get creative with resources
Academic libraries don't generally make the headlines, but one particular topic does tend to put them in the news: ...
2023-08-28
At a 'human library' event, people's real-life stories are an open book
Here at PressReader, we are big fans of libraries and the many resources that they allow their patrons to access, from ...
2023-08-21
Libraries and intellectual freedom create informed, engaged citizens
To get a sense of just how important a public figure Barack Obama remains, even some six years after leaving higher ...
2023-08-14
Mindfulness in libraries: cultivating attention and focus skills in the digital age
We live in an age of distraction. The fact is, our attention is already easily diverted by what's happening around us, ...
2023-08-07
Libraries can fight AI-generated misinformation with media literacy education
The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence has been an unavoidable topic of conversation for the past several ...
