Americans’ use of public libraries has fluctuated in recent years, and this survey shows that just under half of all those age 16 and older (48%) say they have visited a public library or bookmobile ...

On April 9, the Public Library Association (PLA) announced the release of the broadest survey to date—with 2,545 unique responses nationwide, representing 28% of all US public libraries—on how public ...

The Urban Libraries Council this week released its second annual “Library Insights” survey of member libraries, which offered a fairly positive “data-informed view” of “post-pandemic performance for ...

Libraries are in great flux as information is shifting from the analog age to the digital age, as people’s need to acquire knowledge shifts, and as Americans’ interests in personal enrichment and ...

Dayna Williams-Capone, director of library services for the city of Victoria, Texas, has worked in public libraries for 25 years. In all of that time, she says, she never faced demands to remove books ...

The Library of Congress opened its reading room for the blind in 1897. Photo: Library of Congress This year marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), ...