Excerpted from “Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens” by Julia Torres and Valerie Tagoe. Published by ISTE. When we think about the school library as a ...

We see young people graduating without gaining value through a variety of books. They are not curious about checking the footnotes or references mentioned under the topics discussed in lectures.

Creating an interactive in-house museum. Renting out saws, cake pans and vegetable seeds. Providing job centers to connect the unemployed to companies with jobs to fill. These are some of the ...

"Libraries need to remain relevant and attractive, and design can help them appeal to people from many different backgrounds," says Jamie Andrews, head of culture and learning at the British Library ...

Many people believe that public libraries are not as common as they had been before the age of digital information, but libraries are now able to offer much more than they ever have before. I feel ...

Running a small-town library is harder than it looks. From managing circulation to computers and public events, the staff at Chippewa Falls Public Library keeps pretty busy. Their goal is to do more ...