The American Library Project
Featured Stories
Why is this Library Adult-Only?
Amidst a heated battle against censorship in Idaho, parents have to waive their child’s rights.
“Let there be light”: The Robber Baron of the Reading Rooms
Between 1889 and 1910, Andrew Carnegie funded the establishment of over 2,000 public libraries across America, creating opportunities for education and social mobility. But at what cost?
The Project
The American Library Project is a storytelling initiative that investigates the changing role of public libraries across America by asking:
Why do libraries matter today?
How do libraries connect people with the world around them?
How are libraries responding to today’s most urgent social issues?
To answer these questions, writers Carmen Vintro & Oliver Jakes drove across the US, library by library, to meet the communities that create and are formed by America’s public libraries.
Our People
Oliver Jakes
Writer
National Geographic, The Camera
Carmen Vintro
Writer
The Camera
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