Library news: April 9, 2025

Ready for an update from the stacks? Here you go!

• This week is National Library Week; read about this year's theme and what to celebrate each day (American Library Association). 

• Learn how the role of school librarian developed and evolved throughout history (Book Riot). 

• Writer Stephen Akey reminisces about the time he spent in the 1980s as a staffer of the Brooklyn Public Library's telephone reference division (The Hedgehog Review).