McAllen Public Library is located in the city of McAllen, Texas — which many people may have only heard of because of our proximity to the border wall and migrant detention and respite ...

The McAllen, Texas public library moved from a smaller downtown location to a renovated 124,000 square foot former Walmart building last December. This was touching to me on many levels, so it's ...

The McAllen Public Library in McAllen, Texas, is the size of 2.5 football fields — the largest single-story library in the United States. But in its former life, its size wasn’t all that unusual.

And you don’t even have to wait for a computer now.’ The new McAllen Public Library opened in December 2011; after it had been open for just a month, new user registration increased by 23%.

Share or comment on this article: McAllen Public Library Revealed: How a Texas town turned an abandoned Walmart into a massive, award-winning public library (it's a good read!) ...

So, McAllen got architecture firm Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle to come in design the interior of a new library. McAllen architects Boultinghouse Simpson designed the building's exterior.

McAllen Public Library Who says death can’t be beautiful? Okay, so maybe this Wal-Mart in McAllen, Texas, didn’t die, per se, but it did move, leaving behind an empty warehouse.

The McAllen Public Library just won the the International Interior Design Association's 2012 Library Interior Design Competition, and it spans the size of 2.5 football fields.

A Portrait of Public Libraries By Deborah Fallows The topiary garden at the Columbus, Ohio, public library (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows) December 23, 2019 ...

Ideas Looking at Libraries By Deborah Fallows A "fly-brary," courtesy of the Deschutes Public Library, at the Redmond, Oregon, airport (Courtesy of Deborah Fallows) December 26, 2019 ...

El Paso Public Library was one of a handful invited to participate in a pilot partnership between Oprah's Book Club and the American Library Association to promote "American Dirt," Oprah Winfrey's ...