In the fall of 2019, I found myself wandering around Times Square in search of a billboard featuring National Book Award-winner Ta-Nehisi Coates’s debut novel, The Water Dancer. “I’m not sure what ...

When you were a child, did summer reading feel like a chore, or was it fun? Research shows that many children don’t read enough and are behind when they return to school. Summer learning loss — also ...

In a new documentary The Librarians, public librarians are positioned as first responders in the fight for democracy and the First Amendment, despite facing crowds of angry protesters protesting what ...

Early public encounters with computers were shaped less by direct use than by description and explanation. Long before laptops and smartphones became common, print media helped bring the technology to ...