2025
Toronto Public Library expanding social, crisis support services to more branches. Twelve Toronto libraries offer social and crisis support services since 2023. www.cbc.ca/news/cana…
Attending the 2025 National Book Festival. www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2025… “I was lucky enough to attend this year’s festival and below are the highlights of my experience!”
Librarians Are Being Asked to Find AI-Hallucinated Books www.404media.co/librarian…
The Overlooked Reality of Library Security www.linkedin.com/pulse/ove…
“Yet the growing frequency and complexity of security incidents within libraries reveal a hard truth: librarians are increasingly acting as first responders.”
Bookshelves to Bylines: When Libraries and Journalists Join Forces. In the quest for new ways to combat misinformation, partnerships between media organizations and libraries are on the rise. www.libraryjournal.com/story/boo…
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5 Unique Libraries Around The World Redefining Architecture & Community Space www.yankodesign.com/2025/09/0…
“In Asian contexts, where rapid development often fragments traditional community structures, libraries serve as nodes of social cohesion and cultural continuity.”
Where would you put an outdoor library in Columbia? colatoday.6amcity.com/outdoors/… The concept is taking over South Korea’s capital city. We’re thinking about where we’d copy it in Soda City.
ALA and League of Women Voters release Civic Collaboration Guide www.ala.org/news/2025…
The Library That Saved a Life www.ebsco.com/blogs/nov… “The library was my one happy place,” says Elsa Sjunneson. “It was the thing that could just sort of keep me from wanting to leave the planet.”
What do librarians look like? Stereotyping of a profession by generative AI
What do librarians look like? Stereotyping of a profession by generative AI
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The Cost of Neglect: How Poor Library Facilities Undermine Public Trust and Community Impact
Sensory-Friendly Libraries: Building Spaces & Building Belonging sites.psu.edu/sensoryfr…
“Welcome to the project site for the sensory-friendly library initiative at the Penn State Libraries! Our hope is to build sensory rooms in our libraries for all of our students to use for the benefit of their wellness, with a special emphasis on creating a culture of support for neurodiverse students with severe sensory needs (Penn State News Release). We are also building a Virtual Sensory Room (https://sites.psu.edu/virtualsensoryroom/) that anyone is welcome to visit. The goal is to move our libraries closer to sensory social justice, the ideal that each individual should be able to modulate the flow of information from the environment in ways that optimize their cognitive processing and well-being.”
Going around in Circles: Interrogating Librarians’ Spheres of Concern, Influence, and Control
www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2025/circ…
In Brief: The practice placing one’s anxieties into circles of concern, influence, and control can be found in philosophy, psychology, and self-help literature. It is a means of cultivating agency and preventing needless rumination. For librarians, however, it is often at odds with a profession that expects continuous expansion of responsibilities. To reconcile this conflict, it is useful to look back at the original intent of this model, assess the present library landscape through its lens, and imagine a future in which library workers truly feel in control of their vocation.
Discover how one father’s emotional tribute to a beloved public library captures the power of community, storytelling, and lifelong learning.
magazine.1000libraries.com/dads-love…
Saving Stories: My First Week at the Baldwin Library by Aryssa Damron
“This story can now live and breathe and be read and enjoyed again, not just studied and researched by those who happen to be in Gainesville. I felt like I had unlocked some sort of secret assignment to my research–I wasn’t just looking at the published, well-known prose of Margaret Sidney for my research, I was also getting the chance to bring her lesser known work, some of which was never digitized, into the 21st century.”
Supporting Library Employees Through Grief [a research paper]
“Libraries may not typically have policies around bereavement leave or expressions of grief. Likewise, employees who are not bereaved may have no idea how to a colleague in mourning. This article aims to briefly examine what grief and mourning look like and how libraries can support employees through such difficult times.”
Meet the TikTok Librarian Championing Literacy and Mental Health
magazine.1000libraries.com/meet-the-…
Meet Mychal Threets – the librarian, social media personality, mental health activist, and children’s author, making libraries safe, inclusive spaces for all.
Jolys Regional Library in St Pierre MB officially opens its doors at new location
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St. Pierre Councillor Marc Proulx was all smiles during the grand opening event, which included a community BBQ and tours of the new space.
“First of all, by having our own facility, that means we gain control of what’s happening in there,” said Proulx. “Like the kinds of things we do for the kids, activities for seniors, bilingual programs. It’s not that our relationship with the school division wasn’t good, it’s just now we can set our own direction.”
Kitchener library serving life skills in new teaching kitchen
“Some people may look at the program and think, ‘Oh, they’re just chopping things. They’re just mixing things.’ But we try to include some social/emotional learning into it,” explained Chanelle Seguin, a children’s programmer for the Kitchener Public Library.