50 Library Stories You May Have Missed in September

Updated on March 31, 2016

September was back-to-school and back to writing for many librarians. Blogs, journals, and news outlets were jam-packed with library and information stories ranging from articles about makerspaces, digital collections, 3D printing, and free technology for libraries as well as some offbeat topics such as medieval selfies and snapchats from Harry Potter! Check out these 50 posts, infographics, and articles to get you caught up on what's happening in the LIS world.

  1. 15 Geeky Back-to-School Supplies

  2. 28 Snapchats From Harry Potter

  3. Stay Focused! 5 Tools to Avoid Distractions

  4. Polling the Classroom: 4 Free Polling Tools to Keep Students Engaged

  5. 25 Great Resources for Breaking into Academic Publishing

  6. 15 Free Technologies for Libraries

  7. New OverDrive app eliminates Adobe authorization step

  8. (Rethinking) Makerspaces

  9. Engaging Adventures with Gamification

  10. Rosa Parks papers go to Library of Congress

  11. Librarianship: A philosophical investigation

  12. 6 Ways To Become a Power User of the Public Library

  13. The Case for 3D Printing

  14. 9 great books on library marketing

  15. For library web developers: Performance and austerity

  16. Collect library fines with an online payment app

  17. Long Nights build library use

  18. Digitize old slides on the cheap

  19. Collaborating with your public librarian

  20. Makerspaces can make new patrons

  21. Libraries balk at OverDrive changes

  22. 48 Library Stories You May Have Missed in August

  23. Getting into schools for booktalks

  24. Eight fun children's libraries

  25. Self-service library technology

  26. New Austin Public Library will have food demos

  27. Seed libraries: Challenges and opportunities

  28. Teaser for new series, The Librarians

  29. Artist uses LC images to animate his GIFs

  30. Utica woman organizes refugee library in Thailand

  31. Czech National Library digitizes rare collections

  32. Younger Americans and public libraries

  33. Checking out America's libraries

  34. Getting staff and patrons to accept RFID tags

  35. Serving adults with special needs in the children's library

  36. Libraries that lend tools

  37. OSU seeks help transcribing Cold War letters

  38. Library jobs math

  39. Massachusetts librarians work to ensure privacy

  40. The Loeb Classical Library goes digital

  41. Jane Austen fans break world record

  42. The Value of Information Professionals

  43. Five best language translation tools

  44. New York insists on more school librarians

  45. Library student helps create Ebola tracking site

  46. Create an online catalog with Google Drive

  47. ProQuest digitizes Thomas Edison

  48. Famous historical book bannings

  49. Art painted on discarded library books

  50. Medieval selfies