Americans strongly value the role of public libraries in their communities, both for providing access to materials and resources and for promoting literacy and improving the overall quality of life.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. Continuing the photo essay about public libraries, which showed many ...

A city council leader has issued a "use it or lose it" message after confirming under-threat libraries will no longer close.

Libraries are in great flux as information is shifting from the analog age to the digital age, as people’s need to acquire knowledge shifts, and as Americans’ interests in personal enrichment and ...

I grew up down the street from my local library, so I spent a lot of my childhood there, either hidden away in the stacks reading books, using the internet to access Myspace, or meeting up with ...

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