Librarians
The job. Reference work, cataloguing, prison and hospital libraries, bookmobiles and camel libraries, the ALA, funding fights, and the librarians who refused to hand over borrowing records.
Part of Books
46 moments in this segment.
- - Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students in the library reading room LCCN2017843202. A photograph or picture of men reading.
- - Vienesse Café- In the Reading Room (Wiener Café- Im Lesezimmer) MET DP849665. Vienesse Café: In the Reading Room. Lithograph by Moriz Jung
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- - Children's reading in Public Library 02. Children reading, literacy work and school reading across different countries.
- - Keys to the library (1950s). An educational film teaching students to use card catalogs, encyclopedias and the Dewey system.
- - Librarian at the card files at a senior high school in New Ulm, Minnesota
- - Bibliobus - Rosheim en Mai 1993. A mobile library. Modern photograph.
- - Bibliobus KGZ. A mobile library. Modern photograph.
- - Bookmobile Surabaya Indonesia. A mobile library. Modern photograph.
- - Bookmobile Bungkul Park Surabaya. A mobile library. Modern photograph.
- - Iran University of Science and Technolgy Central Library 01. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - Biblioteca Vasconcelos - Salas de lectura. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - A library in exile. DW report filmed while the Timbuktu manuscripts were still hidden in Bamako, on the librarians who moved them out of the city in secret.
- - Inside the Prison Library Project. The Claremont Forum's programme sending books to incarcerated people, and how requests and restrictions shape what can be sent.
- - The International Library of Children's Literature. The NDL branch in Ueno, housed in a Meiji-era building, collecting children's books from around the world.
- - Biblioteks haven. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - European Parliament Library in Brussels 2018b. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - National Library Bus Station 20190719. A library. Modern photograph of the building or interior as it stands today.
- - Faculty of Arts Library, Chulalongkorn University. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - The brave librarians of Sarajevo. Al Jazeera World documentary on the librarians who carried manuscripts out of burning buildings during the 1992-95 siege, including the Gazi Husrev-Beg library collection.
- - 2021 New York City Anarchist Bookfair - The Anarchist Library table. A book fair. Modern photograph.
- - Inside a mobile library. A regional Australian library service shows the interior of its library on wheels and how rural stops work.
- - The human library in Nakuru. CGTN Africa on a Kenyan mental-health organisation running a human library, where people rather than books are borrowed for conversation.
- - Hometown history: Carnegie libraries. A local library service on Carnegie's 2,509 buildings and what they meant to their towns.
- - A library drops Dewey. Local news on Deschutes County Library abandoning the Dewey Decimal system for a bookshop-style scheme.
- - The most challenged library books of the year. PBS NewsHour reviews the American Library Association's annual list of titles people tried to remove.
- - NLS: an accessible library. The Library of Congress on the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled, which with around 100 affiliated libraries provides braille and audio books free by post across the United States.
- - Belle da Costa Greene, the Morgan's librarian. The Morgan Library tells the story of the librarian who built and ran its collection for decades.
- - Building a community library in Uganda. African Library Project film on a library established at a Jinja community organisation, and how the books arrive.
- - A day with a bookmobile librarian. Georgia Public Library Service follows a bookmobile route serving people with no transport to a library building.
- - Tracie Hall of the American Library Association. The then-executive director of the ALA discusses libraries as book buyers and as institutions under political pressure.
- - Reginald Dwayne Betts on prison libraries. The poet and founder of Freedom Reads discusses placing book collections inside American prisons.
- - Part of the rotunda in the National Library of Finland 2024. A library reading room. Modern photograph of the room as it is today.
- - UK school librarians asked to remove LGBTQ+ books. France 24 reports survey findings that British school librarians have faced requests to withdraw titles.
- - The Librarians at Sundance. IndieWire talks to director Kim Snyder and the librarians in her documentary about book bans.
- - Ohio librarians fight for state funding. WFMJ on Mahoning County librarians campaigning against a proposed funding change.
- - A volunteer bookmobile across the border. KPBS on a volunteer-run mobile library serving rural communities south of the San Diego border with no library budget at all.
- - The Morgan Library at one hundred. CBS News marks the centenary of the Morgan Library and profiles its founding librarian.
- - Who should decide which books are banned?. A USA TODAY podcast episode weighing the competing claims of parents, school boards and librarians.
- - The British Museum Reading Room. A 2025 walkthrough of the domed reading room where Marx, Woolf and Gandhi read.
- - The largest US library vendor shuts down. WBNS on Baker and Taylor's closure and what it means for libraries that buy 400,000 books a year.
- - Protesting library funding cuts in Minnesota. Lakeland PBS on rallies against cuts to the Bemidji and Blackduck libraries.
- - Library resilience exercises. Brewster Kahle's keynote on book bans, criminalised librarians and the pressures on libraries.
- - The American Library Association turns 150. A short film marking the anniversary of the professional body that has shaped American library reading since 1876.
- - How libraries address mass incarceration. An ALA book-club discussion on library services and reading access for incarcerated people.
- - A discussion of The Librarians. A 2026 panel discussion of Kim Snyder's documentary profiling American librarians under pressure.
