The American Library Project
The Project
The American Library Project is a storytelling initiative that investigates the changing role of public libraries across America by asking:
Why do libraries matter today?
How do libraries connect people with the world around them?
How are libraries responding to today’s most urgent social issues?
To answer these questions, journalists Carmen Vintro & Oliver Jakes are driving across the US, library by library, to meet the communities that create and are formed by America’s public libraries.
Featured Stories
Coming soon: Who cares about libraries?
Forests of knowledge and portals to exciting new worlds: we discuss the ways that American libraries are adapting to the modern world.
Coming soon: Do children still read?
According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 33 per cent of eighth graders have a ‘below basic’ reading level.
Our People
Oliver Jakes
Writer
National Geographic, The Camera
Carmen Vintro
Writer
The Camera
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