diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b3aa83b..fe008b8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -67,6 +67,37 @@ with open(output_file_path, "w", encoding="UTF-8") as output_file:
 The contents of `reqif_xml_output` should be the same as the contents of the 
 `input_file`.
 
+### Logging
+
+The `reqif` library logs its diagnostic messages (for example, warnings about
+unknown tags) through Python's standard
+[`logging`](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html) module, using the
+`"reqif"` logger hierarchy. Following the
+[standard convention for libraries](https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#configuring-logging-for-a-library),
+the library does not configure any handlers itself, so by default an
+application that imports `reqif` sees no log output.
+
+To see the library's warnings on the console, attach a handler to the
+`"reqif"` logger:
+
+```py
+import logging
+
+logging.getLogger("reqif").addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
+```
+
+Any other `logging` configuration works as well, e.g. `logging.basicConfig()`
+or a handler that writes the records to a file. To also see the messages that
+accompany recoverable schema errors (the errors themselves are collected in
+`reqif_bundle.exceptions`), set the logger's level to `DEBUG`:
+
+```py
+logging.getLogger("reqif").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
+```
+
+The `reqif` command-line tool attaches its own handler, so its output does
+not depend on this configuration.
+
 ## Using ReqIF as a command-line tool
 
 After installing the `reqif` Pip package, the `reqif` command becomes available
diff --git a/reqif/__init__.py b/reqif/__init__.py
index 66298dd..24a2038 100644
--- a/reqif/__init__.py
+++ b/reqif/__init__.py
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
+import logging
 import os.path
 
 __version__ = "0.0.50"
 
+# Follow the standard library convention for logging in libraries: attach a
+# NullHandler to the package root logger so that reqif emits no output unless
+# the embedding application configures handlers for the "reqif" logger
+# hierarchy.
+# https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging.html#configuring-logging-for-a-library
+logging.getLogger("reqif").addHandler(logging.NullHandler())
+
 PATH_TO_REQIF_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), os.pardir))
diff --git a/reqif/cli/main.py b/reqif/cli/main.py
index e2c70c8..422f966 100644
--- a/reqif/cli/main.py
+++ b/reqif/cli/main.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 import os
 import sys
 
@@ -20,6 +21,17 @@
     sys.exit(1)
 
 
+class _LowercaseLevelFormatter(logging.Formatter):
+    """
+    Renders log records the way the CLI used to print() them, e.g.
+    "warning: Unknown child tag: FOO." with a lowercase level prefix.
+    """
+
+    def format(self, record: logging.LogRecord) -> str:
+        record.levelname = record.levelname.lower()
+        return super().format(record)
+
+
 def main() -> None:
     # How to make python 3 print() utf8
     # https://stackoverflow.com/a/3597849/598057
@@ -28,6 +40,18 @@ def main() -> None:
         1, "w", encoding="utf-8", closefd=False
     )
 
+    # The reqif library logs through the "reqif" logger hierarchy and emits
+    # nothing by default. The CLI shows the library's warnings on stdout in
+    # the same format the CLI printed them before the library switched to
+    # logging. The handler is constructed after the sys.stdout reassignment
+    # above so that it writes to the UTF-8-configured stream.
+    reqif_log_handler = logging.StreamHandler(stream=sys.stdout)
+    reqif_log_handler.setFormatter(
+        _LowercaseLevelFormatter("%(levelname)s: %(message)s")
+    )
+    logging.getLogger("reqif").addHandler(reqif_log_handler)
+    logging.getLogger("reqif").setLevel(logging.WARNING)
+
     parser = create_reqif_args_parser()
 
     if parser.is_passthrough_command:
diff --git a/reqif/parser.py b/reqif/parser.py
index 42ad855..3513929 100644
--- a/reqif/parser.py
+++ b/reqif/parser.py
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 # ruff: noqa: A005
 import copy
 import io
+import logging
 import os
 import zipfile
 from collections import OrderedDict, defaultdict
@@ -63,6 +64,8 @@
 )
 from reqif.reqif_bundle import ReqIFBundle, ReqIFZBundle
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class ReqIFParser:
     @staticmethod
@@ -315,6 +318,13 @@ def _parse_reqif_content(
                         spec_relation.target
                     )
                 except ReqIFMissingTagException as exception:
+                    # The canonical reporting channel for recoverable schema
+                    # errors is the returned bundle's "exceptions" list (the
+                    # validate command prints them from there). Log at DEBUG
+                    # only, so that embedding applications can observe the
+                    # errors as they occur without the CLI reporting each of
+                    # them twice.
+                    logger.debug("%s", exception.get_description())
                     exceptions.append(exception)
 
         # <SPEC-OBJECTS>
diff --git a/reqif/parsers/spec_object_parser.py b/reqif/parsers/spec_object_parser.py
index 13bebc2..7b3e58b 100644
--- a/reqif/parsers/spec_object_parser.py
+++ b/reqif/parsers/spec_object_parser.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import logging
 from typing import List, Optional
 
 from reqif.models.reqif_spec_object import (
@@ -6,6 +7,8 @@
 )
 from reqif.parsers.attribute_value_parser import AttributeValueParser
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 class SpecObjectParser:
     @staticmethod
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ def unparse(spec_object: ReqIFSpecObject) -> str:
             elif child_tag == "TYPE":
                 output += SpecObjectParser._unparse_spec_object_type(spec_object)
             else:
-                print(f"warning: Unknown child tag: {child_tag}.")  # noqa: T201
+                logger.warning("Unknown child tag: %s.", child_tag)
 
         output += "        </SPEC-OBJECT>\n"