The Mango Blog

Just like every Batman needs his Robin, your small library needs a strong partner in the community. That’s why when your small library is looking to broaden its patron base (or fight the Joker), it’s only natural to look for the..

Staying organized as a librarian can be stressful. Between helping a wandering patron find his inner Fred Astaire after directing him to your newest copy of Tap Dancing America and facilitating lively discussions in your..

Similar to your neighborhood tapas restaurant, the makerspace provides your library patrons with a smorgasbord of bite-sized bits of knowledge. Makerspaces allow your patrons to experience the technological products and services..

Because you’ve chosen academic librarianship as your career, there’s a pretty good chance that you believe everybody should have access to the collective knowledge we as humans have built up in our time as a sentient species...

As much as we hate to admit it, sometimes some of the greatest knowledge available isn’t found buried in library archives or deep within your microfiche collection. Instead, it’s found in the cloud, accessed through computers,..

Librarians know better than most that sometimes it’s the storm that comes before the quiet. While chaos is not a word many would use to describe the library, occasionally, discord can be difficult to avoid. Enacting a few,..

Wake up and smell the love, librarians! Valentine’s Day is fast approaching and for your public library, that means the opportunity to show your valued patrons some pink and red appreciation this February. Fortunately,..

You know how important your library website is, right? It’s most students’ first stop when they’re looking for a new resource or to check out what you have in the stacks. Because it’s so frequently used, you owe it to your campus..

Here at Mango, one of the things we’ve loved most about working with libraries is seeing the great events and exhibitions they put on for patrons that take Mango as inspiration. Today, we’re deriving inspiration right back from..