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Bizarre questions are all pan of a day's work for a reference librarian. For Tina Princenthal, senior librarian, InfoNow, at Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), some of the questions she's [...]

Nonfiction books can be a gateway to literacy as well as a portal to knowledge. They have the power to fuel a child's curiosity and ignite a lifelong passion for [...]

THE DATA IS in, and it shows that librarians across the country are changing the criteria they use to weed books, paying more attention to unconscious racial bias, inclusion, and [...]

There's no right answer to this unwelcome question. I've written about my kids in previous columns, so you likely already know my answer to the above question, but the library [...]

Formats proliferate while budgets fluctuate. Patrons want access to public library materials but may never physically enter a library building. Collection development librarians work to ensure that their holdings include [...]

Jennifer Hubert Swan is the director of library services at Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in Manhattan. She served on the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award [...]

As director of archives and special collections at Columbia University's Barnard Library, Shannon O'Neill practices 'radical empathy,' both in the materials she selects and in the way she interacts with [...]

When a prospective date asked Kiara Garrett to recommend a book, she suggested Junot Diaz's This Is How You Lose Her. He mistakenly thought the collection offered relationship advice. Garrett [...]

PATRONS WANT TO READ BOOKS that are of interest to them. Sometimes they hear about them through conventional channels--reviews, publisher emails, or author newsletters. They also read blogs and social [...]

IN MY POSITION AS ACQUISITIONS manager at the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL), I serve as the main point of contact for self-published authors hoping to be included in our [...]