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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!

How Libraries Support Future Business Owners During National Entrepreneurship Week

February 07, 2025

Happy National Entrepreneurship Week!

Libraries Make Life Better—And Now We Have the Data to Prove It

February 06, 2025

For those of us who love libraries, it's no surprise that they make our lives better. But thanks to a groundbreaking new study from the New York Public Library (NYPL), we now have the data to prove it. In collaboration with the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, NYPL surveyed nearly 2,000 patrons to explore how libraries impact well-being. The results were resoundingly positive.

You Don’t Have to Leave Your Couch to Visit the Library

February 03, 2025

Libraries have long promoted online services to their patrons, but interest and access rose during the pandemic.
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