The Gift of a Public Library

Andrew Carnegie was the force of Gilded Age philanthropy behind the building of public libraries. Along with other recognizable names who made their fortune in the late 1800s and early 1900s—Rockefeller, Ford, Mellon, Morgan, Stanford, Harriman, Heinz—Carnegie’s influence endures today largely because of the way he gave away the vast fortune he amassed.

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It's Banned Books Week. Here are the 11 most challenged books last year

Books have long been the source of changing perspectives, but not without some controversy.

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CENSORSHIP LEAVES US IN THE DARK: A BANNED BOOKS WEEK READING LIST

Happy Banned Books Week 2019! This year, we’re highlighting how censorship leaves us in the dark. Keep the lights on by adding some of the titles below to your reading list!

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Banned Book Week: Keep Us In The Light

All week, we will be posting about Banned Books. 

What they mean? 

Why are they banned? 

#BannedBooksWeek

Collaborating on Flipped Library Sessions: 8 Best Practices for Faculty & Librarians By: Nicole Webber and Stephanie Wiegand

A common practice at many colleges and universities involves course faculty inviting librarians into their classrooms to teach research and information literacy skills and concepts customized to disciplinary or course needs. Library instruction varies in format but often manifests in the librarian teaching a single, isolated class session—what librarians refer to as a “one-shot.” Many challenges accompany this traditional format, including time-constraints, disengaged audiences, and little understanding on the part of the student as to how the library instruction integrates with course content.

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What makes for a great library in 2019? This duo thinks they know

Some people review restaurants, some review movies. Two men have taken it upon themselves to review every library in Massachusetts.

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