Kids are one of the core audiences for many libraries. Spaces serving them are wildly diverse, both in form and in function—a pre-kindergartner has very different needs from a teenager. Following are ...

Serving not only as a community library for the Loop, the Harold Washington Library exists as a hub for the citywide network of regional libraries all across Chicago. Earlier this week, the flagship ...

In a residential area of the Japanese city of Sakai, the Yukawa Design Lab architecture studio have realized a children’s library with an integrated cafeteria to serve the community. The new building ...

Carol Britton Meyer recently connected with Sharon Moody, Children’s Librarian at Paul Pratt Memorial Library. You can learn ...

When Pratt Institute’s library opened on its Brooklyn campus in 1896, it included a children’s room, the first to be part of a library’s design. Since then, children’s and youth librarianship has been ...

Alongside the World Architecture Festival (WAF), the three-day World Festival of Interiors has also taken place in Lisbon, Portugal. The event crowned the Pingtan Children Library, by Condition_Lab, ...

The Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County’s historic Secret Room received a wall-to-wall makeover in spring 2022, capping a project born in RIT’s interior design program. Teams of students ...

The Pingtan Book House is a traditional timber construction house in China built with an internal staircase and bookshelves that wind around to infinite possibilities for reading and play. The walls ...

Work crews will shut down the Canton children’s library for a 12-week makeover starting Jan. 4, closing a popular area that last year alone circulated 663,863 materials such as books, games, ...

The Garland County Library's Board of Trustees approved a plan Monday for musical sculptures to be placed in the library's community garden in memory of Shafer Morrissey.

The preliminary design of the new $16 million Larkspur Library is complete and set to be released this fall. Public Works Director Julian Skinner said the city’s development team — Alten Construction ...

FARGO — A bookmark might be nothing more than a receipt or scrap of paper shoved between pages. But it doesn’t have to be. The Fargo Public Library is inviting readers of all ages to turn that simple ...