ALA has announced a series of difficult but necessary workforce changes as part of its ongoing ALA Forward initiative.

Here's how a few notable figures American Libraries covered have reflected on advocacy, diverse stories, and censorship-free ...

Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor ...

In this new online column, ALA Senior Endowment Trustee Brett Bonfield will update members about the ALA Endowment Fund ...

Banned Books Week Youth Honorary Chair Iris Mogul discusses starting a book club and her work with the National Coalition ...

A National Coalition Against Censorship and Brooklyn Public Library workshop helps young people become intellectual freedom advocates.

In the past several years, virtual reality (VR) technology has finally begun to fulfill what had long been promised. Traditional VR, which creates environments that allow people to be “present” in an ...

In summer 2020, during the national outcry that followed the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, the concept of antiracism—or actively opposing racism and promoting tolerance ...

In the decade since the Supreme Court upheld the implementation of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), internet filtering has become a frequent practice in public libraries. It has also ...

Join library experts and hundreds of your colleagues for interactive discussions on pressing issues in modern librarianship. American Libraries Live webcasts cover the full spectrum of library topics ...

After two years of pandemic-imposed social distancing and virtual meetings, librarians will once again gather in person at the profession’s largest event. The American Library Association’s (ALA) 2022 ...