The Urban Libraries Council's Trigger Terms: Harmful Detours and Healing Redirects was mentioned in the Public Libraries Association's 2021 Survey. ...

Library Journal shared Urban Libraries Council's Business Value Calculator: Early Insights and Results details, which calculated that 30 U.S. and Canadian ULC libraries made over $200 million in annual value to their economy through services provided to local businesses....

Digital Public Library Association's Board of Directors elected Felton Thomas, Jr., executive director and CEO of Cleveland Public Library, as its new chair, which will extend through June 2025. During his tenure, Cleveland Public Library was named a Top Innovator by the Urban Libraries Council for ...

The Urban Libraries Council was mentioned in an article by the Institute of Museum and Library Services exploring Technology and Digital Equity Manager at Salt Lake City Public Library Shauna Edson's role in promoting digital equity. Edson collaborated with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance an...

Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly has announced the appointment of Esai Navarro as the inaugural Director of the City’s Office of New Americans. Among her many accomplishments, Navarro created the award-winning Uno X Uno Immigrant Youth Library Program, one of the Urban Library Council's Innovative Initia...

Sally Frasier, a longtime Tulsa library commissioner, community volunteer and Democratic Party activist, passed away on August 21, 2022. Sally Frasier worked on the Urban Libraries Council Executive Board, on which she served from 1990-99, served as an American Library Association task force and ser...

While summer provides a time of tremendous opportunity, it is also a time of significant inequities for many children and youth. Today, the Urban Libraries Council, in partnership with the National Summer Learning Association, issues a Call to Action on Equity in Summer Learning. Libraries, partners...

The Urban Libraries Council’s new member tool — the Business Value Calculator — provides public libraries with a concrete way to measure and evaluate its contributions to economic development. Since its launch earlier this year, 30 U.S. and Canadian ULC libraries — which represents just 18% of ULC m...

Witchita Public Library permanently eliminated their fees. Included is a link to ULC's Fine Free Mapto show the other library systems across the nation that have dropped their fines....

Urban Libraries Council was included in an event about design thinking, which provides learners a method for moving to action or scaling up quickly but strategically....