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The article discusses the campaign launched by the North Olympic Library System(NOLS) in January, 2018 to enhance staff education and patron engagement increasing the digital downloadable circulation in libraries involving forty five public libraries in Washington, called the Washington Anytime Library. The Campaign features several components such as staff training, scheduled programs and monitoring the checkouts.

The article offers the author's insights on a monthly library-based resource fair of Social Service Agency in Auburn of South King County, Washington in fall 2015. Topics include the failure of the program called Community Discovery Days, services to patrons, and use of the program for improved relationship building and information sharing among participating agencies.

In this article, the author focuses on decreasing number of libraries in the U.S. due to the introduction on e-books and also highlights the need of maintaining library values for the promotion of library. He says that the Library Bill of Rights highlights the ethical need to provide unrestricted access to information and to guard against impediments to open inquiry. He mentions that the library user should have the right to know the work name and qualifications of the staff members.

The article discusses issues surrounding net neutrality and the status of net neutrality legislation in the U.S. Congress. Net neutrality describes the controversy over whether the government should require Internet service providers to treat all packets of data they send neutrally. The implications of the outcome of the net neutrality debate for librarians and library patrons are discussed, as well as the arguments of those in favor and those who are not in favor of net neutrality.

The author discusses the reporting of challenges involving patrons to the American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom (OIF). Types of challenges, including complaints, attacks, and censorship are discussed. The author also discusses the low frequency of librarians reporting challenges to the OIF and encourages librarians to report challenges.