The Professional Librarian as a Strategic Thinker: Looking Beyond Daily Operations

Much of professional librarianship is built around responding well to what is happening today. A researcher needs assistance with a literature search, a student needs help evaluating information, a fa...

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Future Scenarios: Library Space & Design | A new policy roadmap for library leaders

As community needs shift, libraries are among the few civic institutions that provide the stability and essential infrastructure needed to navigate that change together.   ULC’s new policy roadmap...

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Don’t Toss That Board Book! Transform It into Something Wonderful

Discover creative ways to reuse board books as bookmarks, STEM materials, art supplies, building pieces, and more.

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Curbside Giveaway Day in Durham is today - Durham Post

Curbside Giveaway Day is a fun way to help the environment while connecting with your community, the region said.

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How Privatized Spirituality Makes Us Lonely

When radical individualism takes over spirituality, it leaves people confused, anxious, and alone. But the church has something better to offer.

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Librarianship Should Resist Credential Erosion (opinion)

We should resist calls for credential erosion. If anything, the need for a foundational M.L.S. has only grown in this era of information abundance.

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The Placemaker’s Handbook: A Repeatable Process For Creating Vibrant Places

Small things can add up to meaningful change. Use and repeat this seven-step placemaking process to turn resistance into momentum and transform places into centers of community and vitality.

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A Place Where You Can Just Play

How neighborhood backyards are restoring something children—and communities—have quietly lost.

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Speaker Menin Seeks Permanent Public Access Protections for City-Owned Plaza Adjacent to Guastavino’s

New York City Council

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What Gen Z’s Library Habits Tell Us About the Future of Libraries and Library Marketing

New research shows Gen Z is using public libraries more than ever. But they’re not finding us the way you might expect.

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One of largest Habitat for Humanity affordable projects in Ajax - Durham Post

Habitat for Humanity GTA has selected 521 Rossland Road West in Ajax for one of its largest affordable housing projects in Ontario.

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The Lost Civic Life of Movie Rental Stores

Decades before recommendation algorithms, video stores served as social hubs where conversation and camaraderie became a form of taste-making.

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The Library as Cognitive Gym | Faith in Our Future

Given the trends over the past decades and looking toward the future, how could or should the overarching, primary rationale for libraries be refashioned?

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Anonymous $500K donation boosts Fonthill, Ont. library renovation

The Lincoln Pelham Public Library system has received an anonymous donation of $500,000 towards the renovation of one of its branches.

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Effort on to create a more connected Oak Ridges Moraine Trail - Durham Post

What would make the Oak Ridges Moraine Trail a better trail for people to explore, enjoy, and return to for generations to come?

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Lost, Found, and Redesigned: What Nine Weeks of Wayfinding Research Taught Me About Being Human in a Public Space

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Scarborough Archives jumps on the Scarborough RT

YouTube video by Scarborough Spots

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Outrage after Ontario Science Centre axes entire science department

The Ford government is facing backlash after 30 workers at the Ontario Science Centre, including its entire science department, were laid off as part…

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NEW Heritage Minute: Gander and 9/11

“There’s only one thing to do here – we’re going to ask people to open their doors.” It was the day in which Gander and surrounding communities welcomed the world to its doorstep. *Join our mailing…

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Balancing Act: Third Space VS Burnout in Libraries

How do you balance the desire to do all the things and make your library a "Third Place" while battling librarian burnout?

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The online shopping trend where you buy nothing

On South Korea’s “dopamine sites,” the pleasure comes from aspirational shopping rituals like browsing, curating, and tracking — not from a delivery.

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The Librarians Won an Emmy. And This One Means Something.

For those of us who lived through the attacks on librarians, watching these stories receive national recognition feels deeply personal.

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Some US cities have begun rewarding careful drivers with fewer red lights

Two cities have found a relatively novel way to reduce high-speed crashes by rewarding law-abiding drivers rather than just punishing the lead-footed ones.

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Suburban repair

Secondary succession or how cities can heal themselves.

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Out of Circulation

Attacks on public libraries have been worsening in recent years, threatening freedoms that form the bedrock of American society.

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Can You Air-Condition a City?

As heat waves intensify, cities are racing to develop ways to cool large outdoor areas, from simple mist-spraying towers to complex schemes to create artificial clouds.

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Researcher investigates how people get into the urban mix

Do modern cities still offer the opportunity to meet people from different income levels, social and ethnic groups and backgrounds?

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Greyhound’s 5-year turnaround: new buses, more routes, new customers

The company is part of an intercity bus revival, with better intermodal terminals in major cities and an upgraded customer experience.

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2026 Library Design Showcase | American Libraries Magazine

More than two-thirds of the 15 selections in American Libraries' 2026 Library Design Showcase are renovations or adaptive reuse projects.

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