47 Library Stories You May Have Missed in June

Updated on March 31, 2016

June was a great month for library and information science-related articles and blog posts. If you're still catching up on your news, you'll want to check out these 47 stories on everything from chained libraries to setting up a Roku lending program in the library:

  1. The tweens of summer

  2. Serving military families

  3. Teen services in a rural library

  4. How to Conduct Library Website Usability Studies for Free

  5. 54 Library Stories You May Have Missed in May

  6. 10 Lesser-Known Horror Films Based on Books

  7. A Guide to Little-Known Image Collections with Millions of Free, Hi-Res Images

  8. 4 Free and Easy Ways to Display a Live Tweet Wall

  9. 7 Obscure and Intriguing NYC Libraries

  10. Digital preservation

  11. Orange is the new academia

  12. How to appear like you have it together

  13. This one is really bound in human skin

  14. Google tablets to be loaned at Queens branches

  15. Library as infrastructure

  16. What people are 3-D Printing At The Johnson County Public Library

  17. What does a digital archivist do?

  18. Libraries stream toward Roku lending

  19. The adult lessons of YA fiction

  20. Social inequality in comics

  21. Kick-ass female ensembles in graphic novels

  22. Meals from famous literature

  23. What kind of library user are you?

  24. How to handle controversial programming

  25. Thoughts for 2014 MLIS grads

  26. The last chained libraries

  27. Digital resources in school libraries

  28. College libraries push back over ebook price hike

  29. How libraries can survive in the digital age

  30. NPR's summer reading lists

  31. How to create a Snapchat contest

  32. Future-proofing the research library

  33. The British Library Big Data Experiment

  34. Five awesome bike libraries

  35. What's next for school libraries?

  36. How to circulate Roku streaming devices

  37. What's next for ebooks in libraries?

  38. Literary Legos

  39. What do librarians read?

  40. Audiobooks for reluctant listeners

  41. Thoughts on reader's advisory

  42. Formats for long-term preservation

  43. Academic patron-driven acquisitions

  44. 10 tips on organizing an exhibition

  45. 31 Places Bookworms Would Rather Be Right Now

  46. Who Said It: Tupac Or Shakespeare?

  47. Vine Video Summer Book Trailers

Many of these articles and blog posts came from the amazing AL Direct electronic newsletter.