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By: Becky Yoose What will your public library do when you reopen your doors? Some libraries are exploring phased reopening, starting with curbside or no-contact service outside the physical building. Others are investigating what reopening the physical building to library When libraries become medical screeners: User health data and library privacy

The gender wage gap impacts millions of women throughout the US and world, with women in the US making on average 82 percent of men’s salaries (US Census Bureau, 2018). In research libraries, a field dominated by women, this has historically been true as well, with men rising to top positions at a higher rate and making more money than women in the same positions. Over the decades following the implementation of Affirmative Action, the number of women in administrative positions in research libraries has increased dramatically. This article explores the issue of women’s salaries in research libraries in five job tiers. The five job tiers group library positions based on power dynamic, with the first tier including positions that run academic libraries, through the fifth tier, which includes front-line positions. An analysis of data from the Association of Research Libraries from 1976 through 2016 demonstrates that, though women have made progress in obtaining higher-level positions, salary disparities continue to exist between men and women at all levels.

Libraries are essential. Libraries are a cornerstone of community health and wellness, whether that community is the general public, a school, or a campus. We want to help. That’s our jam. It…

Over the last month, the #closethelibraries campaign has called to close library buildings not only to the public but also to library staff.

Interesting reflections on "problem patrons" and library policing thereof, among many other things.

Joker in the pack: exactly zero library databases currently meet the accessibility standard laid out in this decision.

Dee Garrison’s classic history of American public libraries,  Apostles of Culture , vividly describes the idealism that drove and shaped the work of American public libraries through the turn of the 20th century. The book seems to lead naturally to questions of what ideals have shaped American libraries in more recent periods. Specifically, as an academic librarian, I have long wondered what happened to our profession’s ideals in the midst of the social and political transformations that followed World War II.

Vocational awe. Burnout. Low morale. Precarity. Undercompensation. Together, the themes I see cropping up in LIS research, conference presentations, and Twitter point to a chronic problem.

There are currently 342 potential borrowers waiting for 197 digital copies of Ronan Farrow’s investigative thriller Catch and Kill at the Los Angeles Public Library.

They took DL#s out right before this happened, the lucky ducks.

Public libraries in the digital age are more relevant than ever

You may be wondering why you are receiving tons of privacy policy updates in your email inboxes or getting privacy alert pop-ups when logging in to various onl…

Criticisms have dogged the Millennium Library in the twelve months since management implemented an airport-like security checkpoint, though staff representatives say workplace morale has improved.

Let’s search a Koha catalog for something that isn’t at all controversial: What you search for in a library catalog ought to be only between you and the library — and that, only briefly…

Survey of privacy/security knowledge among Brooklyn PL staff. Unsurprisingly, it's pretty dismal.