The first .NET 11 preview release adds enhancements across the .NET Runtime, SDK, libraries, C#, ASP.NET Core, Blazor, .NET ...

Next version of Microsoft’s software development platform brings improvements for JIT compilation, WebAssembly, C#, and F#.

AI agents can reason, plan, and make decisions—but they cannot generate a contract, parse a scanned invoice, or produce a ...

Four Dallas Public Library branches could be on the chopping block this year. The Oak Lawn Branch, the Skyline Branch in the Buckner Terrace neighborhood, the Renner Frankford Branch in Far North ...

"I shouldn't be surprised, but I kind of was, that The Women was No. 1 yet again," says Harold Escalante, the assistant director of collections and access for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in ...

There’s something about a library that’s inherently beautiful. Maybe it’s the silence or the history of the building. Maybe it's the idea of books being shared among countless readers. Some of the ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's 408 public libraries delivered an estimated $1.06 billion in services and economic benefits during fiscal year 2024, generating $3.75 in value for every dollar of public funding, ...

Microsoft has released .NET 10, a major update of its software development platform. .NET 10 features a range of improvements including enhancements for AI, new cryptography APIs, runtime improvements ...

Like many rural small towns, Tieton, Wash., is facing a confluence of circumstances that has made keeping its one-room library, a “civic symbol” for the town, untenable. “A library is in a lot of ways ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

Libraries are more than just book depositories—they are vibrant community hubs, one of the last free public places where anyone is welcome. In recent years, library workers have been facing a myriad ...

On a recent trip to the local public library, I discovered something distressing. In the children’s section, each computer station was occupied by a child playing games on full volume. And as I ...