Dialogue on Public Libraries

With a focus on California Public libraries, this report suggests how library broadband can be used to address statewide goals.

This report details how city agencies, businesses and other stakeholders can more effectively use libraries to strengthen opportunity, equity and innovative problem-solving across Houston.

Libraries play an important role in areas that are priorities for communities, like civic engagement, workforce development, education and democratic discourse. 

This year the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries convened and facilitated a successful series of dialogues and other conversations across the country to advance the work that public libraries are doing to address community challenges and to transform for the digital age.

Want to watch the Super Bowl at your local library?

Follow-up research using the results from a nationwide survey in the Spring of 2016 to examine the evolving role of public libraries in advancing community goals.

The Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries launched a series of initiatives in 2016 that are creating new opportunities and resources for transforming public libraries. Exciting new projects will continue in 2017.

Public libraries offer more than just books — for many Americans, they are the sole provider of digital access.

A discussion of the challenges and opportunities facing communities and their public libraries as society moves deeper into the digital era.