Libraries have been around for nearly 5,000 years, and sometimes it seems like they haven’t changed much since, at least in the public imagination. You know: hushed, slightly musty spaces smelling of ...

The American Library Association’s 2024 Annual Conference and Exhibition kicked off with a vibrant start in San Diego on June 28, drawing over 13,000 attendees to the Convention Center. Keynote ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Libraries lead us through a flood of analogue and digital information, can be a platform for exchange, space for encounters or social anchors in the city. With our series “Future Libraries” we shed ...

An interesting trend has been unfolding in academic libraries. The library has been welcoming new neighbors. Specifically, programs that support student and faculty success such as math emporiums, ...

Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis. On a sweater-weather Saturday in June, a crowd of ...

Wednesday afternoon turned out to be a really bad time to try to study in silence at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San Jose. You couldn’t blame students and other patrons from ...