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2024 Library Design Showcase

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/2024-library-design-showcase/

Published: September 3, 2024 13:00

From Brutal to beautiful Toronto Public Library, York Woods branch The York Woods renovation and addition retains the original 1970 brutalist library and connected theater while enhancing them with a new 2,000-square-foot glass entrance pavilion, topped…

Censorship Throughout the Centuries

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/censorship-throughout-the-centuries/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:56

OIF, which began collecting data about censorship attempts in US libraries in 1990—and started observing Banned Books Week in 1982—was formed in 1967 to provide tangible support to library workers as they sought to uphold the intellectual freedom tenets of…

2024 ALA Award Winners

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/2024-ala-award-winners/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:54

Ernest A. DiMattia Award for Innovation and Service to Community and Profession Jennie Pu Pu, director of Hoboken (N.J.) Public Library (HPL), has transformed the library into a community hub with robust programming, pop-up libraries in schools, and…

Spirit in the Stacks

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/spirit-in-the-stacks/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:52

“As soon as they get their card, they immediately place a hold on a ghost-hunting kit,” Knisley says. Like many libraries, CCPL has begun loaning out collections of specialized electronic items said to help seekers of the supernatural track down spirits.…

Optimizing Reality

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/augmented-reality/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:50

“College students, being digital natives, are more inclined to engage with technology-driven learning tools,” says Yingqi Tang, distance education and electronic resources manager at Jacksonville (Ala.) State University’s (JSU) Houston Cole Library. That’s…

Makerspace and Sense of Place

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/makerspace-and-sense-of-place/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:48

For nearly a decade, Northwestern University (NU) in Evanston, Illinois, and the Chicago office of the national nonprofit World Relief have worked together to offer free summer programming for families who are refugees or seeking asylum. In 2021, after the…

Newsmaker: Ada LimĂłn

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/newsmaker-ada-limon/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:46

As US poet laureate, Limón has created You Are Here, an anthology (Milkweed Editions, April) and installation project in partnership with the National Park Service that explores the connection between poetry and nature. Limón, a MacArthur fellow and one of…

Music Libraries and Collections

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/music-libraries-and-collections/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:44

1,000 Number of event fliers in the Hip-Hop Collection at Cornell University Library (CUL) in Ithaca, New York. These handmade fliers, made between 1976 and 1984, advertise early live performances by genre trail­blazers like Grandmaster Flash and the Cold…

Bookend: Lushness in the Library

https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2024/09/03/bookend-lushness-in-the-library/

Published: September 3, 2024 12:42

Hewitt C. Wells, the library’s architect, wanted to build it in a park. When that plan fell through, he decided to build “a park in the library,” Ryan says. Completed in 1966, it won the 1968 Industrial Landscape Award (presented by Lady Bird Johnson) and…