Libraries

Banned Books Week ends tomorrow. But young people still have free digital access to books that may be restricted in their communities.

The library’s enduring role in cultural and civic life

A visual exploration of how a critical piece of social infrastructure came to be.

“Bad libraries build collections, good libraries build services, great libraries build communities.”

A civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all

How to fully participate as vested citizens in American democracy

Designing a public space that emphasizes the sensory experience of books

How does your local library work?

'82% of visitors said use of the library 'positively affects how optimistic they are about the future.'”

Rebel against The Algorithm. Get a library card.

Regular users of public libraries also go to church, frequent bookstores and tend to vote Democratic.

Share banned books.

Imagining the library of the future

Nothing threatens authoritarianism like a quiet place to explore knowledge.

In 1935 Kentucky mountaineers 'grasped and clung to the Pack Horse Library idea with all the tenacity of one starved for learning'.

'A place inside for study and a place above for play.'