Elizabeth Negrete Gaylor | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Change Agents
As a Mexican American child whose mother spoke only Spanish to her until she was three, Elizabeth Negrete Gaylor discovered her local library when her ESL teacher encouraged her to go there for more...
View ArticleHeather Acerro | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Change Agents
“Failure is a critical ingredient to success,” says Heather Acerro, head of youth services at the Rochester Public Library (RPL). Her creative approaches to community needs have resulted in positive...
View ArticleKristin Treviño | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
Kristin Treviño, youth and digital services librarian at the South Irving Library, part of Texas’s Irving Public Library, used her knowledge of the impact that connecting young readers with the right...
View ArticleErin Hoopes | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
In April 2015, when a group of Philadelphia teens shared their distress over the death of Freddie Gray while he was in Baltimore police custody, Erin Hoopes found a way to help them voice their...
View ArticleAllie Stevens | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
Allie Stevens’s lightbulb moment came when she took an introductory public libraries course at Louisiana State University. Before that, Stevens thought she’d be a science or medical librarian. The...
View ArticleAngel Jewel Tucker | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Community Builders
The 2013 acquittal of George Zimmerman for killing Trayvon Martin broke Angel Tucker’s heart. Then a young adult librarian at the Central branch of Kansas’s Johnson County Library system, located in...
View ArticleJenny Ryan | Movers & Shakers 2018 – Educators
In Saskatoon, First Nations people make up nine percent of the population, and Jenny Ryan wanted to find ways to serve those communities. So when she came across the story of a new DC superhero,...
View ArticleGood Bones | Library Design
The key notes of the Laurel Branch Library—transparency and playfulness—work together.
View Article2018 Gale/LJ Library of the Year: San Francisco Public Library
A model and inspiration for public libraries worldwide, the San Francisco Public Library (SFPL)—with its committed staff, transformational leadership, amazing array of programs, partnerships,...
View ArticleFree Speech Debate Erupts with ALA’s Inclusion of Hate Groups in Revision of...
Are hate groups the same as sports, religious, social, civic, partisan political organizations? When it comes to using a public library's meeting room, the ALA says, "Yes."
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