It's been a tough year for public libraries. In March, President Trump issued an executive order to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency devoted to funding ...

Rob Simmons estimates that, over the last decade, Oak Park Public Library employees have helped save the lives of about 20 people who overdosed on opioids. In some cases staff members saw that a ...

When people picture a school library, they still imagine rows of dusty books and students whispering behind tall shelves. But that image of silence couldn’t be further from reality. The modern library ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

After nearly 200 years, Baker & Taylor, a major distributor of shelf-ready library books, will be closing in early January. They’re far from a household name, but if you’ve ever held a library book — ...

The same week Scottish immigrant and industrialist Andrew Carnegie was inducted into the Pittsburgh Walk of Fame because of his philanthropy and commitment to learning through libraries, those ...

There are still dozens of library branches that were built by Andrew Carnegie in the city. The Carnegie Corporation is giving them gifts. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Wednesday. Today we’ll find ...

In June 2025, the Qt team officially rolled out Qt Creator 17, marking a notable milestone for developers who rely on this IDE for cross-platform Qt, C++, QML, and Python work. While there are many ...

In yet another example of actions that conflict with stated priorities, the Trump administration wants to eliminate federal funding for our nation’s public libraries while at the same time it “Makes ...

For the last five years, Michelle Coleman has attended cooking and culinary education classes in a light-filled teaching kitchen at her local library in Boston. The kitchen, designed for hands-on ...

Libraries have long been known as a place for shushing, where quiet was not only encouraged but enforced. But times have changed, and many libraries around the country are attempting to reinvent ...