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Youth Movement: Children’s and Teens’ Librarianship
Adult library services get most the profession’s attention, but there's a lot to talk about in children's librarianship.
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PW Talks to Ferguson Library Director Scott Bonner
'PW' catches up with director Scott Bonner for a wide-ranging talk about life in Ferguson, MO, and the library’s much lauded efforts following the shooting of Michael Brown.
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Check it Out: Book Banning in America
A new book explores how and why books are challenged in America.
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What Makes a One Community, One Book Program Succeed
One Community, One Book programs are anything but new, but the old model still has plenty of life in it.
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Now Trending on Twitter: Public Libraries
Using the hashtag #becauseofapubliclibrary, Ferguson (Mo.) Municipal Public Library library director Scott Bonner sparked an outpouring of library love from the Twitterverse on Tuesday.
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Books and Browsers: Privacy for Digital Library Patrons
Libraries must not only protect our users' privacy, but also educate them about how responsible data collection can benefit them.
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ALA Midwinter Spotlight: All Our Coverage
Our overview of ALA’s 2015 Midwinter Meeting, January 30 to February 3 in Chicago.
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The Top 10 Library Stories of 2014
PW takes a look back at some of the library stories that captivated the publishing world in 2014, and what they portend for 2015
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Books and Browsers: Building the Nimble Library
Building the nimble library
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Can Open Access Save the Scholarly Monograph? ALA Midwinter Spotlight
Scholarly monographs, long the gold standard for scholars in the humanities and social sciences, have been in a downward spiral for some time.
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We Build The City
In a popular post last month on Motherlode, the New York Times's parenting blog, Luisa Colón made a surprising admission: she doesn’t like to take her kids to the library anymore.
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Digital Audiobook Lending Is Finding Its Groove
By all indications, digital audiobook lending is growing in popularity among library patrons across a number of demographics.
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Check It Out with Peter Brantley: New Standards for E-book Distribution
In a fast-changing industry like publishing, the simple things are often the most useful.
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Tips for Librarians at The Guadalajara Fair: Spanish-Language Publishing 2014
The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL), the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America, will be held this year from Saturday, November 29, to Sunday, December 7, with thousands of attendees from around the world.
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The Fault in Our Stars
Every few months the notion of celebrity librarians (celebrarians?), sometimes embarrassingly referred to as “rock star librarians,” appears on our radar.
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EveryLibrary Gears Up for November Elections
EveryLibrary is gearing up for a big election day on November 4.
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Aspen Institute Report Urges Public Library Transformation
A new report from the Aspen Institute looks at the importance of U.S. public libraries, and how they can change and improve to meet new roles in the 21st Century.
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3M Library, B&N Offer Nook Lending Program
3M Library Systems is partnering with Barnes & Noble to allow library systems to purchase the Nook GlowLight e-readers directly from the retailer to lend to their patrons.
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Michael Kelley: How Libraries Preserve E-books
Librarians caution that we are tumbling toward a digital memory hole in which large portions of our literary heritage could one day be lost altogether.
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JukePop Hits Kickstarter for Funding
JukePop, an e-book platform that provides book discovery for self-published authors by offering libraries and traditional publishers the ability to identify popular indie works, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $15,000.
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