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Dear Reader: Librarians Should Never Forget You
Imagine for a moment that libraries were for-profit enterprises. You know your core customers, but what would you do to keep them coming back?
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James Patterson to Donate $1.25M to Libraries
As part of a new initiative designed to raise awareness about the state of school libraries in the U.S., James Patterson announced that he will make a $1.25 million donation to school libraries across the country this year.
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Check it Out: The Race for ALA Presidency
J.P. Porcaro may not fit the mold of past ALA presidents, but his campaign is rallying a generation of young librarians to participate in ALA.
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Books and Browsers: Collaboration Creates New Possibilities for Digital
How a project to address museum catalogues yielded big insights into digital publishing.
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EBSCO Buys YBP Library Services from B&T
EBSCO officials called the acquisition of YBP Library Services, a leader in serving academic libraries, a "significant investment."
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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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