The library’s influence extends beyond its walls. These selections offer ways librarians can engage their community via volunteer efforts, collaborations, advocacy, and more. We spend much of our time ...

Marti Byrne had never heard of a tool library, or worked with an expansive catalogue of tools, before taking part in UB’s Community Work Study Scholars program. Today, Byrne, a junior English major, ...

Our library engagement typology found that Americans fall into four broad levels of engagement with public libraries, which can further be divided into nine total groups. (Want to see which group you ...

This week’s column is about Entertained Communities, the third and final section of BPL’s Strategic Plan for 2016-2020. The goal is to create user friendly spaces, responsive programs and services, ...

Are you a librarian, educator, civic leader or a member of the public who is interested in your local public library’s role in your community? Compare the library engagement of your library or group ...

The Pew Research Center’s Internet Project has intensively studied the changing world of public libraries for the last three years. The first stage of our research explored the growing role of ebooks, ...

The Brown University Community Council held its first meeting of the semester in the Watson Institute’s Joukowsky Forum Monday afternoon. The 37-person council, composed of University administrators, ...

The Bermuda College’s academic library has been transformed into a “third space” for student engagement, according to the ...