Future Library’s books will be printed from trees that are still growing, and no one alive will read them. It’s a metaphor for the climate crisis. On a sweater-weather Saturday in June, a crowd of ...

An interesting trend has been unfolding in academic libraries. The library has been welcoming new neighbors. Specifically, programs that support student and faculty success such as math emporiums, ...

It takes a certain measure of both hubris and selflessness to create an artwork that won’t be completed until long after your death. Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s “Future Library” begins this year ...

Proposed plans to build sites for new libraries throughout Summerville have been presented to the County Council and to the Dorchester County Library Board over the past few days. Future Ridgeville, ...

Libraries have been around for nearly 5,000 years, and sometimes it seems like they haven’t changed much since, at least in the public imagination. You know: hushed, slightly musty spaces smelling of ...

This piece was previously published on Popula. On a cold Saturday last November I needed a place to work, and decided to head to a nearby branch of the Albany Public Library, a few blocks from my home ...