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Better Living Through Audio: 7 Ways Free Audiobooks Can Improve Your Life

September 02, 2025

Audiobooks are an unstoppable force these days, with net sales revenue rising to $2.22 billion in 2024, an increase of 13 percent since 2023, according to the Audio Publishers Association (APA). Of those sales, 99 percent were digital, many purchased by libraries to be made available to the public.

Andrew Weiss: “Lean Into the Difficulty of Thinking for Yourself”

August 29, 2025

Andrew Weiss, digital service librarian at California State University Northridge and author of the books Counterfact: Fake News and Misinformation in the Digital Age and Big Data Shocks: An Introduction to Big Data for Librarians and Information Professionals, wasn’t always a lover of libraries. As a child growing up in the late ’70s and early ’80s, he found them intimidating and tough to navigate.

Just Another Day at Work: How Librarians Are Changing Lives, One Job Seeker at a Time

August 26, 2025

Living through unemployment is already challenging enough—it doesn’t help when searching for a job feels like an impossible process. Unfortunately, the current US job market has been reaching historical levels of difficulty, with fewer employers hiring overall. Thankfully, libraries provide free opportunities for job seekers to get support in their search.

The Role of Civic Institutes on Campus: A Look Inside TCNJ’s Center for Community Engagement

August 22, 2025

The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) is a vital civic institution at The College of New Jersey. Civic institutes like the CCE promote civic engagement, community involvement, and social responsibility among students, faculty, and staff. In 2015, the CCE received the Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement Classification, a distinction shared by only 360 other colleges and universities nationwide.

How Librarians Ensure Access to Evidence-Based Health Care

August 20, 2025

Many academic librarians teach students how information is produced and organized. This can include how a journal article is written and peer-reviewed, as well as how search engines and databases work. The goal is to help learners find, evaluate, and use the information they need. This is especially important for students entering jobs in health care, where knowing how to find the latest or best evidence can be a matter of life and death.

Erasing History in Our Parks: Why Book Bans in National Park Service Gift Shops Threaten Democracy

August 18, 2025

In a country that prides itself on freedom of speech and the preservation of history, the recent attempts to remove certain books from National Park Service gift shops is a deeply troubling development. These actions are not about improving visitor experiences or making room for new titles. Like censorship anywhere, it is about controlling narratives and silencing inconvenient truths.

The 11 Best Law Library Websites

August 18, 2025

In the 1991 remake of The Addams Family (a movie to die for), an Uncle Fester imposter has taken control of the family home. Gomez tells his clan not to worry, that the courts will make them whole. “They say a man who represents himself has a fool for a client,” says Gomez. Then he raises a defiant finger: “Well, with God as my witness, I am that fool!”

School Library Musings: Making Order Out of Chaos

August 15, 2025

Those of us of a certain age learned, way back in elementary school, how to find a book in the library: by using the venerable Dewey Decimal Classification System, or DDC. A flexible organizing system, the DDC has been in use in school and public libraries around the world ever since librarian Melvil Dewey created it more than 150 years ago. Once housed in wooden cabinets with long, narrow, numerically organized drawers filled with cards—hence its moniker, the card catalog—library catalogs are now fully automated and accessible to anyone with internet access.

Accessibility at an NHS Library: A Personal Insight

August 13, 2025

“You know,” the nurse said, as she helped me into the orthpaedic boot that would be both bane and benefit for the next few weeks, “I hope I get to your age without breaking anything.”

What Is a Medical Data Librarian?

August 11, 2025

Did you know some librarians specialize in scientific data? I’m a medical research data librarian, and every week I work with graduate students and researchers to help them get the data they need for their work.
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