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Amid record-high attempts to ban books and a harsh reality of reduced funding and staffing, libraries have a great publicist. Meet Mychal Threets, 34, a librarian in Fairfield, Calif., who has amassed ...

Mychal Threets has always been proud to be a library kid. The Fairfield, California native was homeschooled by his mother and spent so much time in the Solano County Library that he genuinely can’t ...

In spring 2021, I had the great pleasure of writing here about my dreams of becoming a librarian. At the time I was pursuing my Masters in Library Science and serving as a graduate assistant at Martha ...

HARI SREENIVASAN: Bianna, thanks. Amanda Jones, thanks so much for joining us. We are speaking with you, not just because you are a librarian in Louisiana, who’s written an amazing book called, “That ...

Ask Mychal Threets to share a little bit about himself, and he immediately starts talking about libraries. It's fitting, though, because libraries helped shape who the Fairfield, California, man is ...

When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback. "People scoffed and said, 'Why would you go ...