Dateline Dayton, Ohio, 1961 — a group of fourth-graders from a Catholic school decide to go out the back door of their branch library and set off the fire alarm. Yep, I was one of those kids. We ...

Virjean Griensewic used to love when new books would arrive at the school libraries. She got to take the cards for the old wooden card catalogs home with her at night, and she’d spread them out on her ...

Carla Hayden, librarian of Congress since 2016, was abruptly fired from her position. She was the first woman and first African American to hold this job. She started as a children’s librarian in ...