Inside, visitors are greeted by movable shelves, desks, work tables, and other pieces of furniture on casters that can be rolled into storage within minutes to transform a quiet reading zone into a ...

Welcome to the 2024 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Like the profession itself, library facilities are in a ...

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 ...

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of the Rose Main Reading Room at Manhattan’s New York Public Library (NYPL) early on May 28, 2014. At two in the morning, one of the ceiling’s gilded-plaster ...

After years of delay, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to designate as interior landmarks two magnificent, Beaux-Arts style rooms in the New York Public Library ...