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“Whatever Job You Give Me, I’ll Learn” — Natalie Jacobson Reflects on Her Illustrious Career in Television News

HOW TO Manage Fiction Series

New Podcast Episode! Celebrate National Voter Registration Day @ Your Library

Federal Broadband Funding Guidelines Now Available for States to Begin Planning, Applications

The Conversation Around Policing and Public Libraries

Beyond Yuck and Yum: Programming with Picture Books about Food

Inclusive Birding through the Library

Helping Patrons Keep Up in the Digital Age–Promising Practices in Libraries

Overdue Party

Jennifer Close on How Politics, Pasta, and 90’s Cover Bands Informed Her Hilarious New Novel About a Family in Crisis

FYI Podcast: The White Allies Handbook: 4 Weeks to Join the Racial Justice Fight for Black Women

“I’m Always Writing in Extremity of My Life” — Sara Baume on Her Gorgeous and Poetic New Novel

Libraries Can Really Change the Future

HOW TO Flip Your Library’s Collections – Visiting Project Chaos

HOW TO How to Think About, Talk About, and Be About Allyship

HOW TO Initiate and Pilot a Social Work Practicum at Your Library

HOW TO — National Voter Registration Day Initiatives

Azar Nafisi on How Reading Is Crucial To Our Survival

FYI Podcast: A Trauma-Informed Framework for Supporting Library Patrons

“To Make Meaningful Long-Term Change We Have to Take a Systemic Approach To It”—Ruchika Tulshyan on Creating a More Inclusive Workplace

Jane Pek on Subverting Genre Tropes and the “What If” Scenario at the Heart of Her Ingenious New Mystery

Advancing Digital Equity by Expanding Tribal Library Access to E-Rate

Asexuality On the Shelves

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The Human Library: Sharing the Community with Itself

Search vs. Research

The Librarian’s New Role: Knowledge Discovery

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