Our new report takes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would ...

Every day in the United States, 10,000 people are turning 65. That will continue happening for the next 15 years—producing a major demographic shift and a corresponding explosion in the need for ...

When it comes to public libraries, immigrant Hispanics pose both a challenge and an opportunity to the library community. On the one hand, this group, which makes up half of the adult U.S. Hispanic ...

The Museum and Library Services Act, legislation to reauthorize the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), was introduced in both the Senate and House on September 28. Sen. Jack Reed ...

Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn’t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San ...

President Trump has appointed Keith E. Sonderling as the new acting director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The IMLS is an independent federal agency responsible for awarding grant ...