With the success of the recent White House petition on school libraries, the American public has asserted its support for this vital aspect of childhood education. The following schools have ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) selected seven winners of the 2016 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards. The goal of the program is to recognize and ...

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Library Association (ALA) are awarding six libraries with the 2018 AIA/ALA Library Building Awards for excellence in architectural design.

A bookmobile designed by RIT students will soon roll into Rochester neighborhoods. Students in RIT’s School of Design spent the fall 2023 semester working with the Rochester Public Library (RPL) and ...

This article was published 06/05/2019 (2366 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. A new home for public learning is taking a page from the former community of Rooster Town and ...

One would be hard-pressed to find a house without books. Besides providing the joys of reading, books are accessories that can personalize a room, dust a neutral space with color, and bring warmth and ...

"I had always yearned for a double-height library, since books are my life," wrote author Andrew Solomon in our September 2017 story about the restoration of his crumbling New York City townhouse, a ...

Last week, former US president Barack Obama spoke in Chicago about his plans for the presidential library to be named after him. Set to open in 2021, the library will be one of 14 presidential ...

As the transformation of libraries continues, it follows that the physical structure would have to transform as well to support changes in services, missions, and audiences. The 2012 Library Design ...