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The Inspiring Women Who Made Library History

March 10, 2025

Although most librarians today are women, libraries were originally staffed mostly by men. Even as more women entered the profession during the 1800s, men still held most managerial positions. However, female librarians kept pushing against the glass ceiling, breaking down the barriers holding them back.

JSTOR’s Prison Initiative Reaches More Than 1 Million Incarcerated Learners

March 05, 2025

Education is a valuable tool for everyone, and having access to resources such as libraries and online databases is vital for researching and learning. People who are incarcerated have long dealt with obstacles to accessing the resources they need to pursue their education and research goals.

Libraries Taught Kristen Arnett to Ask Questions

February 27, 2025

When Kristen Arnett was growing up, she was always begging to go to the library.

IdeaSpace, a Makerspace Unlike Any Other

February 24, 2025

EveryLibrary would like to thank the Central Rappahannock Regional Library System’s (CRRL) Chuck Gray, IdeaSpace manager, and Simon Watts, MakerLab specialist, for participating in an email-based interview in February 2025.

Data Librarians are Securing Government Data!

February 18, 2025

A small team of data librarians has been actively searching for data assumed at risk and sending the datasets and documentation to ICPSR's DataLumos, a crowd-sourced repository for government data. In the past week, they have sent data from IMLS, the Department of Education, FEMA, HUD, SAMSHA, and more. In addition, they have been nominating sites for the End of Term Crawl. They aim to ensure that the data captured has the appropriate documentation and metadata to enable long-term discoverability and preservation.

A Brief History of Legal Publishing

February 17, 2025

We saw it many times across sixteen years: Jack McCoy, maverick prosecutor from TV’s Law & Order, talking shop with his fellow attorneys or going toe-to-toe with defense counsel behind closed doors.

Students of Military Parents Deserve the Freedom to Read

February 13, 2025

President Donald Trump has issued executive orders aimed at eliminating what he termed "radical indoctrination" in K-12 education.

We Should All Be Paying Attention To What's Happening to the National Archives

February 11, 2025

So, hi there! 👋 Former National Archives employee here. The president officially fired the Archivist of the United States, as he had promised to do before taking office. The quality of the reporting on this has been disappointing, to say the least, with only the most basic understanding of what the National Archives does. This is bigger than a little spat with a small agency.

Building a Collaborative School Library: The Impact of Staffing Roles

February 10, 2025

In some ways, school libraries have changed very little since the late-1800s setting of Barbara Cooney’s picture book Miss Rumphius, in which the main character works in a library “dusting books and keeping them from getting mixed up, and helping people find the ones they wanted.” (Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius, Viking Press, 1982.)

Trump Just Fired the National Archivist!

February 08, 2025

He most likely fired her in retaliation for the stolen documents case. The only problem is that she wasn't in charge of the National Archives at the time!
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