Sara Peattie makes and puppeteers giant puppets, but she never intended to start a puppet library. “We were doing pageants and parades and we had all these puppets, and people kept wanting to borrow ...

Four Dallas Public Library branches could be on the chopping block this year. The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the Buckner Terrace neighborhood, the Renner Frankford Branch in Far North ...

This year’s library news featured as many plot twists and cliffhangers as a Dan Brown novel. Federal funding, the freedom to read, perpetual or temporary access to print and digital collections, and ...

Heather L. Robinson has a library card for the Hepburn Library Network. Public engagement with library programs and events has increased by one million. Loans of books, DVDs and other items are at ...

The arrival of Autumn also means the arrival of Vectorworks’ annual updates to its Architect, Landmark, Spotlight and Design Suite products. Martyn Day looks at how the product set is evolving under ...

Jasmine Bond spends her weekdays working two libraries in one room that are separated by a movable partition wall. On one side, the Phoenix Public Library director teaches up to 10 classes of Coolidge ...

These nonprofit libraries function similarly to municipally run libraries, often receiving substantial local funding. While some independent libraries remain, others have been integrated into ...

Vectorworks 2026 was engineered to elevate every step of the design process. The update builds on the provider’s “design-first” philosophy, is fueled by the evolving needs of designers today, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some libraries aren't just places to borrow books — they're destinations with deep history and architecture that tell stories beyond the pages. The 1000 Libraries Awards 2025 highlights some of the ...