Library Web is a magazine about libraries, books, architecture and the changing ways we preserve, organise and discover knowledge.https://libraryweb.info/enhttps://libraryweb.info/en/reading/bibliotherapy/https://libraryweb.info/en/reading/bibliotherapy/Bibliotherapy covers three quite different practices. What libraries actually run, what the research supports, and what reading-based support cannot do.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/community-information-hubs/https://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/community-information-hubs/Where to go, who to ask, what a letter means: how public libraries became the place people bring questions about local services, and why they get asked.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/digital-media-literacy/https://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/digital-media-literacy/Public libraries teach the skills the internet assumes people already have: accounts, forms, devices, and judging what you are reading. How that work runs.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/digital/history-of-ebooks-in-libraries/https://libraryweb.info/en/digital/history-of-ebooks-in-libraries/From the first e-readers to licensing, DRM and the two-week loan of a file: how library ebook lending was built, and why it works the way it does.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/digital/library-2-0/https://libraryweb.info/en/digital/library-2-0/Library 2.0 was the argument that libraries should be built around participation rather than announcement. What it proposed, what failed, and what stayed.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/digital/library-apis-open-data/https://libraryweb.info/en/digital/library-apis-open-data/Catalogue records are data before they are pages. How MARC, identifiers, linked data and public APIs let library descriptions be used outside the library.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/archive/library-web-newsletters-2007-2011/https://libraryweb.info/en/archive/library-web-newsletters-2007-2011/A mailing-list archive of 232 Library Web newsletters survives from February 2007 to November 2011. What it contains, month by month, and what it proves.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/social-media-and-libraries/https://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/social-media-and-libraries/Libraries were early to social platforms and are now rebuilding their own channels. What worked, what the platforms took back, and what belongs on a feed.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/value-of-public-libraries/https://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/value-of-public-libraries/Public libraries are judged on more than loans: literacy, digital access, employment, community and trust. What the evidence supports, and what it cannot.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/how-libraries-work/worldcat-union-catalogues/https://libraryweb.info/en/how-libraries-work/worldcat-union-catalogues/A union catalogue lets one search cover many libraries at once. How shared cataloguing works, what WorldCat is, and why libraries describe a book once.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/libraries/beautiful-libraries-around-the-world/https://libraryweb.info/en/libraries/beautiful-libraries-around-the-world/A tour of libraries worth travelling for, from baroque halls to glass reading rooms, and what makes a library beautiful rather than merely photogenic.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/reading/do-people-read-differently-on-screens/https://libraryweb.info/en/reading/do-people-read-differently-on-screens/People read differently on screens, but the device matters less than the conditions: interruptions, length, purpose and how the text is laid out.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/how-libraries-work/how-does-a-library-catalogue-work/https://libraryweb.info/en/how-libraries-work/how-does-a-library-catalogue-work/A catalogue is a set of records, not a list of books. How cataloguing, classification, call numbers and ISBNs let a library find one item among millions.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/archive/library-web-archive-2008-2010/https://libraryweb.info/en/archive/library-web-archive-2008-2010/Why this domain keeps a record of its earlier life as a web magazine about libraries and reading culture online, published between 2008 and 2010.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/the-modern-library-more-than-books/https://libraryweb.info/en/modern-library/the-modern-library-more-than-books/A modern library still lends books, but it is no longer built around them. What it offers instead: space, access, equipment, teaching and company.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/types/types-of-libraries/https://libraryweb.info/en/types/types-of-libraries/Public, national, academic, research, special, mobile, prison and digital libraries, plus tool, seed and thing collections: what each type is for.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/digital/what-is-a-digital-library/https://libraryweb.info/en/digital/what-is-a-digital-library/A digital library is a described, searchable, maintained collection, not a folder of scans. How digitization, metadata, search and preservation fit together.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/architecture/why-modern-libraries-look-different/https://libraryweb.info/en/architecture/why-modern-libraries-look-different/Old libraries were planned around the books. New ones are planned around the people, and almost every visible difference follows from that one change.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://libraryweb.info/en/future/will-ai-change-libraries/https://libraryweb.info/en/future/will-ai-change-libraries/AI changes how people search, not what a library is for. Where machine answers help, where catalogues still win, and what preservation now has to cover.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT