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Small and rural communities face a complex set of intersecting challenges. Individuals in less-populated areas, for instance, are more likely to experience extreme poverty and food insecurity, while their public [...]

Welcome to the 2021 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries' annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways. That this year's slate [...]

Five libraries earned this year's American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects. The winning projects include programs that offered online academic aid and games to college [...]

The American Library Association's (ALA) annual Emerging Leaders (ELs) program recognizes the best and brightest new leaders in the library profession, allowing them to get on a fast track at [...]

Like Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, the events of September 11, 2001, have left a permanent [...]

Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus details the experiences of Spiegelman's father during the Holocaust, with Jewish characters depicted as mice and Nazis as cats. It has been the [...]

Four libraries have been awarded the 2018 American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library Projects. Presented by the International Relations Round Table (IRRT), the awards recognize services [...]

Readers' advisory is incredibly personal. Finding books a patron may enjoy requires librarians to mine a plethora of factors: patron reading habits; tastes in literature, pop culture, and politics; family [...]

Welcome to the 2014 Library Design Showcase, our annual celebration of new and newly renovated libraries. These libraries are shining examples of innovative architecture that address user needs in unique, [...]

We Chicagoans love our food. In a town best known for its deep-dish pizza, hot dogs, and Italian beef sandwiches, we also take pride in our city's more recent culinary [...]

I, John Kennedy Toole. By Kent Carroll and Jodee Blanco. May 2020. 256p. Pegasus, $25.95 (9781643131931). A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is an American classic, [...]

Anthem: Rush in the 1970s. By Martin Popoff. May 2020. 360p. illus. ECW, $34.95 (9781770415201). 782.42166092. Over the course of its near-five-decade career, Canadian progressive rock band Rush was heralded [...]

Five Days: The Fiery Reckoning of an American City. By Wes Moore and Erica L. Green. Apr. 2020. 320p. RandomlOneworld, $28 (97805255123631.363.32. Moore (The Work, 2015; The Other Wes Moore, [...]

Visitors to Everett (Wash.) Public Library (EPL) are greeted with a sprawling sight upon entering the 1930s-era building: A vibrant mural depicts a panoramic view looking west from Everett, across [...]

Stephen A. Kershner retired as director of Cook Memorial Public Library District in Libertyville, Illinois, June 1. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

The article discusses the architectural design of libraries in the U.S, including the D. H. Hill Jr. Library at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, designed by Lord Aeck Sargent, the Neilson Library at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, designed by Bialosky + Partners, Maya Lin Studio, Shepley Bulfinch, and the Baldwin Public Library in Birmingham, Michigan, designed by Luckenbach Ziegelman Gardner.

* Mary Anen, 80, assistant librarian for more than 25 years at the Lake Hiawatha (N.J.) branch of Parsippany--Troy Hills Public Library System, died March 6. * Carol Davis Junek, [...]

Emily Plagman joined the Public Library Association as project manager for PLA's performance measurement initiative January 12. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

In February Charles Wilt retired as executive director of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

March 13 Lindsey Ritzert joined the University of Central Florida Libraries in Orlando as head of circulation services. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

Angela Maycock joined the Public Library Association April 8 as program manager for professional development. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

Emily Weeden joined the Young Adult Library Services Association as special projects coordinator February 24. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]

Ilene Cooper retired as senior editor of Booklist April 10. Send notices and color photographs for Currents to Phil Morehart, [...]