Running a restaurant is no easy task. And while libraries do a lot of things amazingly well, being a restaurant operator on top of all that is a tricky proposition. But when has a challenge ever stopped a library? This is certainly the case for Toledo Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL). In November 2022, the country’s second SAME (So All May Eat) Café opened at the library. This restaurant has a simple mission: To preserve the dignity of those who may not be able to access healthy food due to financial barriers. Instead, the café allows all guests to pay for... Read more

OCLC's WebJunction, in partnership with Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, has created a series of free online courses developed for staff at tribal archives, libraries, museums (TALMs), and small public libraries on digital stewardship and community-centered curation of digital collections. These on-demand courses, adapted from the Tribal Digital Stewardship Cohort Program developed at Washington State University, are available now.

A pressing concern for staff at tribal libraries, archives, and museums is managing, preserving, and caring for the diverse cultural heritage materials in their holdings. And, like many staff at TALMS, small and rural... Read more

School librarians and staff help prepare all students for success. A shifting educational landscape presents new opportunities and challenges, requiring fresh approaches to the important work of empowering students. Learn more about a School Librarian’s Information Shelf, which offers curated resources with actionable advice to help you continue to empower students.

From 2019-2022, OCLC mentored fifteen school librarians who received grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to transform their school libraries in various ways. The knowledge and insights shared by these librarians and other subject matter experts led to the creation of A School Librarian's Information Shelf,... Read more

WebJunction and the Sustainable Libraries Initiative are collaborating to offer a set of resources to support libraries as they address the greatest threat to global health and the grandest challenge of our time: climate change.

Increasingly severe weather, food scarcity caused by droughts and lack of biodiversity, intense heat, record-setting wildfires, and sunny-day flooding are all acute indicators that climate change is here and is already a deadly and costly aspect of modern life. As we seek solutions to slow the effects and manage the immediate impacts of climate change, we find the answers entwined with some of the... Read more