Washington, DC - The Urban Libraries Council is proud to announce that Sarah Meilleur, CEO of the Calgary Public Library in Alberta, Canada, has joined its Board of Directors. “Sarah has repeatedly shown how library leaders can be innovative and future-looking while remaining responsive to their co...

"For decades, many civic leaders have treated parks, trails, libraries, community centers and other public spaces as “nice to have” amenities, pleasant features of a community but secondary to the real work of economic development. We believe that framing has the issue backwards. A growing body of r...