Welcome to the 2023 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address patron needs in exciting and effective ways. This year’s selections ...

Brooklyn Public Library has unveiled designs for a dramatically reimagined modern library in New Lots that nods to the site’s history as an African burial ground, set to replace the currently standing ...

Sharing your shelf is, in a way, sharing yourself. Every element —from the titles you choose to the way you organize them— says something about your personality and your interests. Who wouldn't want ...

DOVER — A potential expansion of the 140-year-old public library is being weighed by city leaders, though before making any decisions, the city has first hired an architectural firm to aid in the ...

Welcome to the 2022 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in inventive, interesting, and effective ways. This year’s ...

Though historians consider the 17th century to be “the golden age of libraries,” these futuristic libraries suggest a biblio-renaissance is well underway. Once a silent sanctuary for books, ...

Italy, France, and Britain went to war on American soil during the Gilded Age, deploying not armies or artillery but architectural styles. The prize was the allegiance of a handful of plutocrats.

Library officials have completed $4.6 million in renovations to improve accessibility at the Hunters Point Library in Queens ...

At this library, it’s the patrons that get browsed. The sleek new library at Cornell University has a design flaw that allows people to see up the skirts of anyone browsing for books, students and ...

"It weirded me out!" yelped a woman who had mistakenly gotten off the Central Library's elevator at the fourth level -- the cherry-red labyrinth that perhaps resembles the digestive tract of a giant ...

Designed by PGAL to serve as a “library within a park” in the heart of the Midtown District of Dallas, the 40,000-sf Traphene Hickman Library in Cedar Hill features library, museum, and event spaces ...

Multnomah County Library has parted ways with a member of the design team for its east county flagship location in Gresham as allegations have surfaced accusing the member of sexual misconduct. The ...