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See what’s happening.
Browse your activity feed, catch up on community news, discover upcoming events, and never miss what people are talking about.
Your Community, Wherever You Go Connect with librarians. Share ideas. Belong to something bigger.
Bookstacks and Stories is a mobile community built for librarians to connect, share, learn, and grow together. Your community is always just a tap away.
There’s Always Something to Talk About Find your people. Find your groups. Jump in.
From professional challenges and big ideas to books, patron stories, library humor, and everyday life—the app gives librarians a place to talk about it all.
More Than Just Networking Discover what’s happening across the community.
Find events, friends, resources, industry news, groups, opportunities, and librarians you’ll want to know—all conveniently inside the app.
Your library community, all in one place.
Bookstacks & Stories connects librarians with the people, conversations, opportunities, and ideas that matter most.
Find your people
Meet librarians like you.
Discover librarians from across the profession, build your network, follow people you want to know, and connect directly.
Find your place
Join conversations that interest you.
Explore groups built around specialties, interests, challenges, and even the fun side of library life.
Grow & discover
Find your next opportunity.
Discover jobs, professional resources, events, useful ideas, and opportunities shared throughout the community.
The Library Alcove.
Curated reads. Trusted reviews.
Books that inspire your collection and your community.
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Curated for Librarians
Reviews and picks from librarians you trust.
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Reviews & Insights
Honest reviews, discussion points, and program ideas.
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Build Your Collection
Find books your patrons will love—and add them to your library.
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For Every Reader
Fiction, nonfiction, YA, and more—something for everyone.
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Malas
Book Reviews, Patty’s Picks
In 1951, a mysterious confrontation in the border town of La Cienega, Texas, places a curse on Pilar Aguirre and her family.
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Laying Down the Latte (Bakeshop Mystery #21)
Book Reviews, Patty’s Picks
Jules Capshaw heads to a Costa Rican coffee farm for a relaxing getaway that quickly becomes another mystery to solve.
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Legendary Frybread Drive-In: Intertribal Stories
Book Reviews, Patty’s Picks
Interconnected stories from Indigenous writers serve up laughter, love, Native pride, community and the world’s best frybread.
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My Own Words – Authors Edition | Felicia Malone
Uncategorized
Author Felicia Malone shares descriptions of her two novels in the first My Own Words Authors Edition episode.
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Featured reading
Award-Winning & Recognized Books.
Recognized titles currently featured by Bookstacks and Stories.
Inside the community
There’s a place
for you here.
Bookstacks and Stories brings librarians together in a mobile community built around the conversations, connections, and experiences you share every day.
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Connect
Meet librarians who get it.
Build relationships with librarians from different communities, specialties, and stages of their careers. Find familiar faces, make new connections, and grow your network beyond your own library.
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Share & Discuss
Bring your questions. Share your experience.
Join conversations about the things librarians actually deal with—from programming and patrons to technology, career growth, books, and the moments only another librarian would understand.
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Discover
There’s always something happening.
Explore groups, events, resources, news, opportunities, and ideas from across the librarian community. Open the app and see what your community is talking about today.
Worth a Read
What librarians are talking about.
Ideas you can use, stories you’ll relate to, and perspectives from people who know library life firsthand.
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New Member Coffee Chat
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