ULC is an innovation and action tank representing more than 160 leading urban public libraries in the U.S. and Canada. ULC drives cutting-edge research and strategic partnerships that elevates the power of libraries as essential, transformative institutions for the 21st-century. For 50 years, libraries have relied on ULC to identify significant challenges facing today’s communities and provide new tools and techniques to help libraries achieve stronger outcomes in education, digital equity, workforce and economic development and race and social equity.