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Life in the Bike Lane: Designing livable cities from the street up | Editorial
On Leap Day this past February, I gave myself the gift of a Citi Bike membership. In New York City, where Library Journal’s office is located, this bike-sharing service hit the streets in 2013 and has...
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The Research Journey | Office Hours
Since 2014, academic librarians from across the United States have gathered at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) in Los Angeles to be part of an immersive learning experience—the Institute for Research...
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Making Libraries Visible on the Web | The Digital Shift
In Library: An Unquiet History, historian and curatorial fellow for Harvard’s metaLAB Matthew Battles describes Melvil Dewey’s impatience with inefficiency in library work in the 1870s. “To Dewey,...
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Write Here | Programming
THE WRITE STUFF (Clockwise from top l.): Denver PL’s Hard Times Writing Workshop; SpeakEasy Book Authors Signing for the Community Novel Project at Topeka & Shawnee County PL, KS; Corvallis–Benton...
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We Talked About Failure | BackTalk
The Utah Library Association (ULA) dove headfirst into failure on February 19–20. Along with the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL), ULA hosted Strikethrough: The Utah Library Association Failure...
View ArticleFeedback: Letters to LJ, August 2016 Issue
“In many schools, professors research their own favorite topics, then teach classes that have no relationship to what they are researching” RA research gap Kudos to the University of Washington for...
View ArticleLibrary People News: Hires, Promotions, Retirements, and Obituaries
Susan Fliss has been named Dean of Libraries at Smith College, Northampton, MA, effective September 1. She was formerly Associate University Librarian for Research, Teaching and Learning at Harvard...
View ArticleNews Briefs for August 1, 2016
On July 14, the American Association of Geographers, a nonprofit scientific and educational society founded in 1904, announced that it is donating its archive to the Library of Congress (LC), to be...
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