The City of Brotherly Love is also a city of firsts: The Library Company of Philadelphia, founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1731, is considered the country’s first public library. Philadelphia was the ...

Teen Services Development Day is a one-day, stand-alone event devoted exclusively to teen services for library staff. The day will include two keynotes and eleven education programs focused ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Thousands of librarians from around the country are in Portland for a convention, where the Public Library Association is focusing on a lot more than just how to get more ...

From left: Sandra Solache, library assistant at Murrieta (Calif.) Public Library; Monica Chapa Domercq, advisor for the Pacific Library Partnership and trustee at Oceanside (Calif.) Public Library; ...

In the midst of a wearying, years-long assault on the freedom to read, librarians and library supporters unofficially kicked off the 2023 American Library Association Annual Conference with a shot of ...