The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the candidates running for 2026–2027 ALA presidency and ALA ...

Amy Katzenberger became director of the Development Office at the American Library Association in early September.

In response to the results of the 2024 US election, ALA vowed to continue its defense of the core values of librarianship in ...

Kerri Price returned to ALA as director of the Office for Accreditation in September. She introduces herself to members with ...

In 2023, the American Library Association’s Public Programs Office launched the largest grant initiative in the Association’s history—the Libraries Transforming Communities (LTC): Accessible Small and ...

For Susan Brown, December 17, 2004, was a perfectly normal day—until she saw the elevator doors open. Brown, director of Transylvania University’s J. Douglas Gay Jr./Frances Carrick Thomas Library in ...

Members of Totoket Valley Elementary School’s (TVES) intergenerational book club, comprising 4th-graders from TVES and residents from North Branford Senior Center in Northford, Connecticut, complete ...

Vernon Area Public Library District in Lincolnshire, Illinois, worked with municipal leaders to create a self-guided exhibit titled Know Your Local Government. Photo: Vernon Area Public Library ...

Author-illustrator Vashti Harrison made history this year as the first Black woman to win the Caldecott Medal, which has been awarded since 1938, for her picture book Big. It tells the story of a big ...

St. Louis (Mo.) County Library, in partnership with the St. Louis Area Diaper Bank, distributes diapers at its six library locations. Photo: St. Louis (Mo.) County Library What would you do to keep ...