More than two-thirds of the 15 selections in American Libraries' 2026 Library Design Showcase are renovations or adaptive ...

Spacesaver’s Day Use Lockers provide a secure place for personal belongings, allowing patrons to focus on their activities.

Libraries provide places where neighbors meet, learn, and support one another and where residents can find year-round climate ...

2026 Library Design Showcase By Sallyann Price More than two-thirds of this year’s 15 selections are renovations or adaptive reuse projects. Libraries of all types are finding ways to acknowledge ...

September marks Library Card Sign-Up Month, and this year’s festivities are set to a whole new beat with Laufey, a two-time Grammy winner and debut author of children’s book Mei Mei the Bunny (Penguin ...

Environmentally sound Fulton County (Ga.) Library System, Central Library in Atlanta The interior design of the renovated downtown Central Library prioritizes accessibility, flexibility, and ...

“We can’t imagine a better third space than the library,” Shapiro told attendees of “Infant Programming Reimagined: Connecting Caregivers and Communities through Libraries,” a June 28 session at the ...

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Two participants at Denver Public Library's Community Learning Plazas create a monoprint on a traveling printing press studio. Photo: Will Chan Gloria Velez waited 13 years to immigrate to America ...

“Decent, but not too highbrow.” That’s how one volunteer described the kind of fiction he and his colleagues solicited from their Hibbing, Minnesota, neighbors for the second of three book collection ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...