Discard your images of a crumpled old crabapple librarian, sticky with cardigan lint and cat hair. Modern librarian work is less about filing books and more about frantic organization of an infosphere that is rapidly growing out of... Read More

Jessica Anne Bratt is a branch manager at Grand Rapids, Michigan, Public Library. She and three other librarians recently launched an initiative called Libraries4BlackLives, pledging support for the Black Lives Matter movement and hosting... Read More

Attention librarians: This is not a drill. The emergency is real and the danger imminent. Libraries, especially in rural areas, are at great risk. Due to a combination of cash-strapped local communities that depend on municipal budgets to... Read More

Dion Mindykowski is director of the Tahquamenon Area Library in Newberry, Michigan, located on the rugged, rural Upper Peninsula. Here, even the local librarian must be made of sterner stuff than the average book nerd. Foreword first met... Read More

Kyrsten Bean, who works with teens at Orinda Library in Contra Costa County, California, is not easy to categorize. And that’s just fine with her. She’s a punk rocker with a classical-­pianist father. By day, she travels to... Read More

Jessica Ordich and her puppet persona provide information literacy instruction to adult learners. Fictional character you would like to be marooned with on a deserted island? Joe Kavalier from The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay... Read More