I thought I was getting a qualification for a library career. I ended up with a new understanding of professional development.

AI is transforming library work. At a vet tech school library in Pittsburgh, PA, library staff are using AI to support student success and streamline operations.

Sometimes the best way to solve a problem is by admitting that you can’t

Open access agreement management creates an opportunity for library staff to help identify publishing integrity problems. Here are some techniques to try.

Targeted professional development for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) staff is under attack. Our stories show its transformative power.

As libraries face funding challenges, it can be difficult to justify hiring for non-traditional jobs. But visual designers can play a crucial role in how a library connects and communicates with its community.

Adaptive leadership provides a framework for guiding teams through times of difficulty and change. Here’s how it works.

The elimination of the library faculty at Western Illinois University shocked the library world. But if libraries at other small- and medium-sized institutions want to avoid a similar fate, it will require a radical departure from business as usual.

When circumstances are unpredictable, it can be tempting to avoid identifying career goals. Here’s how librarians can continue to imagine their professional futures.

Read or watch Lauren Collister’s interview with the Data Rescue Project’s Lynda Kellam, who discusses the effort to preserve government data and the special role librarians and archivists have to play.

Retention issues—driven, among other factors, by staff dissatisfaction and burnout—are a key concern in public library systems. To solve the problem, we first need to close the leadership competency gap.

For libraries that depend on international vendors to supply books, serials, and media, the effects of tariffs could be significant. Here’s how we can chart a path forward.

In the aftermath of the Trump administration’s executive order attempting to eliminate the IMLS, and as librarians across the country receive notices cancelling their IMLS grant funding, IMLS Matters is collecting testimony from librarians about the impact of the IMLS’s work. Here are some of their stories.

Leo Lo, dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences at the University of New Mexico, reflects on his unconventional career path and lessons he’s learned along the way.

Katina Strauch’s memoir, Doing the Charleston, which will be published this week, tells the story of her career in librarianship alongside the history of the Charleston Conference, which she founded in 1980. In this excerpt, she looks ahead to the future of libraries. As Katina puts it, many will disagree, and that’s okay!

Clarivate’s “transformative subscription-based strategy” caught the library world flat-footed. How did this happen? And where do we go from here?

To survive in the face of disruptive change, libraries must balance operational excellence with innovation. The “Innovation-Operations Perpetual Motion Engine” is how one library achieves this goal.

Our library conducted an talent audit to catalogue staff competencies, laying a foundation for professional development and teamwork.