Updates from around the world, including Russia's ban on a major anime website and a plan to build school libraries in Indonesia.

The Storytelling Resource Place holds books, recordings, costumes, and other items related to the storytelling performance ...

Games—whether of the board, video, or trivia variety—help people connect, escape, and learn. Information professionals see the transformative power of games firsthand in their libraries through ...

Growing up, Steve Spohn’s primary way to connect with others was through videogames. Diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy as an infant, Spohn spent significant time in the hospital as a child. “The ...

December 2, 2025 150 × 100 The 12 days of librarianship (first-year edition)Light bulb plugging itself in ...

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee and Kyle Deeds write: “We are excited to share GovScape, a public search system for 10+ million government PDFs. GovScape is built upon the End of Term Web Archive, an ...

Former librarian of Congress Carla Hayden at the American Library Association's 2025 Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia on June 28 Photo: EPNAC “I’m a little nervous, because I haven’t ...

December 2, 2025 150 × 100 An AI literacy curriculum for young studentsA robot writing and young detectives investigating ...

Students in the English for Older Beginners class at Jones Library in Amherst, Massachusetts, build their language skills through activities like field trips. Photo: Lynne Weintraub It’s not unusual ...

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee and Kyle Deeds write: “We are excited to share GovScape, a public search system for 10+ million government PDFs. GovScape is built upon the End of Term Web Archive, an ...

The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...