After an earth-shifting week that has brought into stark relief the experiences of racism and racial violence that many of us and our communities navigate every day as people of color, it is even more ...

A supermajority of ALA employees formally requested that ALA management voluntarily recognize their union, , in a letter delivered to ALA Executive Director Dan Montgomery March 30. “Voluntary ...

Tamika Barnes, associate dean of Perimeter College Library Services at Georgia State University, has been elected 2026–2027 ...

Fobazi M. Ettarh, undergraduate success librarian at Rutgers University–Newark, described her take on librarian values at an April 13 session at the 2019 Association of College and Research Libraries ...

April 1, 2026 150 × 100 Project Hail Mary read-alikes Project Hail Mary cover ...

Updated August 30, 7:17 a.m. Two people are dead and four wounded after a gunman opened fire inside Clovis-Carver Public Library in Clovis, New Mexico, on August 28. The gunman entered the library at ...

Jennifer Pate, director of OpenEd at Texas A&M University in College Station, shares tips for team trivia nights. Photo: Carrie Smith, American Libraries It was a trivia night so good, the university ...

The world is changing rapidly: socially, technologically, and ecologically. Even while the “tech backlash” phenomenon is making headlines, libraries must still anticipate and adapt to digital advances ...

When Goochland County (Va.) Public Schools abruptly stopped in-person learning at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic last March, school librarians Zoe Parrish, Sarah Smith, and Susan Vaughan worried ...

Welcome to the 2025 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries throughout North America. Today’s libraries are places where people from diverse ...

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 ...

A woman using the card catalog at the main reading room of the Library of Congress, circa 1940. Photo: Library of Congress OCLC printed its last library catalog cards on October 1, 2015, ending an era ...