Typecasting
A high school counselor said the loan would outlive her career. The milk carton agreed. She became a librarian anyway.
Librarian
Karin Wannerud
A librarian who wrote her dissertation on integrated library systems, and now helps build one. She is making sure the shift to AI is threaded with care, so it works for librarians and the communities they serve, not in place of them.
Stories from the Inside
How a handful of activists trying to get books to one jailed friend became thirty thousand books a year, and why that floor is now cracking.
Thirty Years & Two Metres Under
A shy girl hiding fairy books behind the encyclopedias, a man with 23,600 stolen volumes, and the two metre gap where a book can vanish for thirty years.
Pride & Prejudice
From a Swedish sorority party to armed anime librarians, the many afterlives of the woman in the mousy cardigan.
Is There Really A Reading Crisis?
Sweden still scores above average in reading, and that is exactly what the numbers are hiding.
AI & Fingerspitzengefühl
Why the anger I expected at ALA never came, and why we’d refuse to sell Librar to anyone replacing a librarian.
On Borrowed Time
On school librarians, the hours that get away from them, and what they would do with just one more.
Notes from a first ALA
First impressions from four days on the floor of the ALA conference in Chicago.