Library! - Ready, Set, Library! - Library Week 2024 - Lyman Beecher Brooks Library at Norfolk State University

Are You a Librarian?

The Are You a Librarian? series on YouTube grew from the work on the documentary, Are You a Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians. The channel talks to and shows "Black Librarians as inventors and pioneers and provide a fresh perspective on the role Black Librarians play in transforming the field of Librarianship."

About Us

The Lyman Beecher Brooks Library provides information resources, services, and technologies that enable and equip Norfolk State University students, faculty, and staff to become successful scholars and lifelong learners.

To learn more about the library, including a description of its collections and what is required to access information resources both in-person and online, please see: Welcome to Lyman Beecher Brooks Library!

Libraries & Librarians in the Media

LibVoices
Hear from librarians of color speak to the fullness of their careers including successes, challenges, and achievements. How do they do it? Join co-hosts Jamia Williams and Jamillah R. Gabriel to find out more about their #LibVoices.
Call Number with American Libraries Podcast
Call Number is the popular podcast series from American Libraries, the magazine of the American Library Association. Each month, your host and American Libraries Associate Editor Diana Panuncial will be your guide to conversations with librarians, authors, thinkers, and scholars about topics from the library world and beyond.
School Librarians United
Welcome to School Librarians United, a podcast dedicated to the nuts and bolts of running a successful school library. Tune in to learn all about the issues and challenges school librarians face everyday!
Circulating Ideas
Circulating Ideas facilitates conversations about the innovative people & ideas allowing libraries to thrive in the 21st century.

ACRLog
Blogging by and for academic and research librarians.
Information Literacy Weblog
Curating information literacy stories from around the world since 2005.
Urban Libraries Council
The Urban Libraries Council is dedicated to strengthening and advancing the essential role of public libraries as a dynamic place for innovation, equity, and opportunity.

In the Library With the Lead Pipe
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer-reviewed journal founded and run by a team of librarians working in various types of libraries. In addition to publishing articles and editorials by Editorial Board members, Lead Pipe publishes articles by authors representing diverse perspectives including educators, administrators, library support staff, technologists, and community members.
Directing Change: The Transformative Work of Black Library Leadership
Interview with Joslyn Bowling Dixon, Jamar O. Rahming, Renita Barksdale, and Roosevelt Weeks, four Black library directors who are using their power and privilege to inspire, advocate for, and direct change.
Why Supporting HBCU Libraries Is Essential
Libraries are vitally important and fundamentally important to all of us. They provide us with the freedom to learn about anything we desire.