Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

Python libraries are pre-written collections of code designed to simplify programming by providing ready-made functions for specific tasks. They eliminate the need to write repetitive code and cover ...

The new PBS Independent Lens documentary about America's public library system arrives with a very clever, two-edged title: Free for All: The Public Library. The "Free for All" part refers, of course, ...

The Library Company reading room on Juniper Street in Philadelphia c. 1935, one of the group’s main locations from 1880 to 1935. The Library Company of Philadelphia Founding father Benjamin Franklin ...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which provides grants to libraries and museums nationwide, has been effectively shuttered and its staff placed on administrative leave. This ...

Correction: A previous version of this article had a different date of establishment for the Institute of Museum and Libraries. IMLS was established in 1996. In an executive order last week, the Trump ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) engineering is no longer just about building models from scratch—it’s about creating systems that are efficient, scalable, and seamlessly integrated into real-world ...

The decision locks libraries into an ecosystem that is not in readers' interests. Congress must act. I was raised in the 1980s and ’90s, and for my generation and generations before us, the public ...

The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...

I have tests where I'm using python multiprocessing library. When I'm running them on AWS linux machine I'm getting an error "output.xml' failed: Incompatible child ...