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The article discusses the journal's Periodicals Price Survey which examines the state of the periodicals market in the U.S. Topics include status of unemployment and of economic performance through the end of 2022, comparison of average price of titles in Scopus database, and periodical prices for high school and public libraries.

The article reports on the launch of a project, American Prison Newspapers 1800-2020: Voices from the Inside, by Reveal Digital, part of Ithaka's not-for-profit digital arm JSTOR. Topics discussed include purpose of the initiative, process developed by the team behind the project for tracking down the people who produced the publication whenever possible, and the creation of webinars by Reveal Digital to help bring the collection to a popular audience.

The article discusses how libraries in the U.S. are providing services for people that are incarcerated. Topics covered include the findings of Jacob Kang-Brown and Ram Sabramanian's Vera Institute report "Out of Sight: The Growth of Jails in Rural America," the challenge of sorting information about library services to people who are or have been incarcerated and their families, and way to support the families of people who are incarcerated or recently released.

The article discusses the results of the "Library Journal's" 2021 survey on readers' advisory (RA) services in U.S. public libraries. Topics include the challenges reported by RA librarians, the necessity for multilingual RA resources, and the most useful question one asks patron when conducting one-to-one RA.

The article provides information on the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University (JMU) in Harrisonburg, Virginia, the first academic center in the U.S. devoted to African American poetry. Topics discussed include grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Center's collection of spoken word and performance videos, origin of the Center, and the hosting by Furious Flower of a quarterly literary journal, "The Fight & the Fiddle."

The article discusses how libraries and archive genealogy services are adapting to widespread DNA testing and challenge brought by the Covid-19 pandemic. Topics include the hosting of virtual events by the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library (CHPL), Ohio, an excellent resource for genealogy experts when researching Hispanic genealogy from afar, and comments from Ayshea Khan, the Asian American Community Archivist at the Austin History Center, Austin Public Library in Texas.