Marcellus Turner, executive director and chief librarian at the Seattle Public Library, spoke at the Midwinter Meeting on Sunday about preparing libraries for the future. He began with audience ...

The original version of this article included several quotes or statements that were not clearly attributed to the original sources. This isn’t your childhood library. The Hunt Library at North ...

(COLORADO SPRINGS) — In less than a month, on Sunday, Dec. 1, the Rockrimmon Library on the Northwest side of Colorado Springs will close. On Saturday, Nov. 16, the “Save the Rockrimmon Library Group” ...

Libraries have been around for nearly 5,000 years, and sometimes it seems like they haven’t changed much since, at least in the public imagination. You know: hushed, slightly musty spaces smelling of ...

Scottish artist Katie Paterson is building a literary time capsule. She is the creator of the Future Library Project, which will collect a new work from a great contemporary writer each year for the ...

“‘Building a Culture’” (The Chronicle, April 28), which describes the focus of community colleges of the future, is way off the mark when it describes the way libraries will be treated. It is ...

For our November print issue, we asked local experts to gaze into the crystal ball to predict what life in the Little Rock metro area will be like in 2050. In “The Library Book,” journalist Susan ...

Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis. On a sweater-weather Saturday in June, a crowd of ...

Yard signs are seen throughout Fortville as the new location for the new library is yet to be determined. The Board of Trustees will vote on the new location at their next meeting, Aug. 15. HANCOCK ...

With roots in nearly every community across the five boroughs, New York City’s 207 public library branches are uniquely positioned to help address several economic, demographic and social challenges ...

THE action of the State of Massachusetts, a year or two ago, in creating a library commission, and committing to a small body of selected men and women the task of fostering local libraries, opens a ...