The Building Team responsible for Des Moines Central Library embraced the notion of designing a simple library in the park. London architect David Chipperfield took that idea and ran with it, ...

I admit that I wasn't always a local library lover in my adulthood. Of course, the library was a haven for me as a kid. They always had the new book in my favorite series, I knew tons of kids from the ...

Promoting literacy is fundamental to the mission of public and school libraries. Whether it’s through summer reading initiatives, story hours, book clubs for children and teens, or other programs, ...

Learning to read starts well before a child starts school. Early literacy development begins in infancy and provides a backbone for everything children do as they start their reading journey. That’s ...