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My experience is one that probably occurs with alarming regularity to professional librarians all over the United States: The police came knocking at my door--without proper documentation--and asking for information […]

'Fair, just, and fearless.' That's how New York Library Association (NYLA) Sustainability Initiative's (SI) Rebekkah Smith Aldrich describes her cochair, Claudia Depkin. It's not surprising that Depkin, raised by parents [...]

When Kate Lasky became director of what was then Oregon's Josephine Community Libraries (now the Josephine Community Library District) in 2010, she knew she had a hard road ahead. All [...]

In 2011, when Tonia Burton became children's services consultant at the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, the Children's Center was in trouble. It had little programming and a [...]

Lindsey Dorfman spent several years traveling and working in high-end restaurants before earning her MLIS and joining Kent District Library (KDL), Michigan's second-largest public library. She says working in the [...]

Skye Corey was still in library school in 2014 when she attended an Ontario Library Association Conference and saw a presentation by staff from the Toronto Public Library about their [...]

'It is important for...libraries that own [a] one-of-a-kind collection to make such a collection available and accessible to the world,' says Azusa Tanaka, Japanese studies librarian at the University of [...]

'If it doesn't work out, just learn from it,' says Craig Arthur of his approach to Digging in the Crates. A community-driven program hosted at Virginia Tech's (VTU) Newman Library, [...]

Like many college-aged youth, students at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman can get intimidated by the library. That is heightened for MSU's 650 Native American students, who make up [...]

In 2012, a blind man came into the Nakusp Public Library in rural British Columbia, where Sabina Iseli-Otto was then library director. He wanted a digital audio version of Robert [...]

Adam Watts didn't realize he was on a path to librarianship when he became a shelver while pursuing a degree in 3-D animation in college. Zack Weaver was a PhD [...]

As manager at the West Toledo Branch, Toledo Lucas County Public Library, Andrea Francis noticed one particular impact of the nation's opioid epidemic on her customers: more children being raised [...]

Fangmin Wang didn't start his career as an innovator. 'I liked learning and I liked doing research,' he says. But when Wang joined Ryerson University Library, he found a tradition [...]

Sue van der Veer started her career in education but eventually realized public libraries were a better fit for her passion for teaching, learning, and community connections. When she joined [...]

When Pete Schreiner accepted a two-year fellowship at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 2016, his initial assignment involved researching virtual reality (VR) and other emerging visualization technologies and reporting [...]

'This story began with the Calgary Public Library's (CPL) work to remove barriers to library access,' says Roberta Kuzyk-Burton, learning and development specialist at CPL, of Anton Chuppin's efforts to [...]

As an undergrad working on a student documentary film about their deceased grandfather's World War II experiences, Erica Titkemeyer discovered his oral history interview in a library's special collections. 'It [...]

WHEN I WAS PURSUING MY MLS, I would daydream about helping people. Soon after graduation, however, I came to see a darker side of reference--the retail approach. [See also 'Retail [...]