The way students learn has changed. As a result, academic libraries are grappling with an identity crisis. No longer seen as merely archives for print materials or a place for silent, solitary work, ...

The Main Library's Family Study Room offers a unique space for student-parents to balance their academic and caretaking responsibilities.

Valerie Zulevic, the youth services manager at the Tinley Park Public Library, said so many teenagers were in the library’s new teen area studying for finals this December that one day library staff ...