Ideas

Michelle Carton builds a global education at the Tudor Elementary School in Anchorage, Alaska.

After backlash from members, ALA goes back to work on proper wording for the use of meeting rooms in the Library Bill of Rights.

At the Ames (IA) Public Library, a successful summer workshop gave young patrons interested in drag performance an education and an outlet.

More books are being adapted to graphic novels—and vice versa. These trends are expanding audiences and creating opportunities for creators. Here's what's hot right now.

Overhauling library systems, forging alliances, finding communities, weathering suspicion, and weeding—sometimes thousands of titles. It’s all in the first year’s work for many librarians starting at a new school.

How to draw on, and supplement, classroom teaching skills while making the transition to a school library.

Librarians are helping to foster a productive exchange of ideas among students.

After her successful #KidsNeedBooks campaign, author Ann Braden and partners are piloting #KidsNeedMentors to facilitate ongoing author/educator/child relationships.