The 2026 winner of the Excellence in Early Learning Digital Media Award, given to a digital media producer that has created ...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services’ empty booth at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition in Philadelphia. Terra Dankowski/American Libraries Empty conference booth with a sign that ...
Libraries have been buffeted by a string of policies and executive orders in the first year of Donald Trump's second ...
Getting started with web accessibility improvements can feel over­whelming. The ultimate goal should be a website that maximizes accessibility and considers inclusive access in all decisions. But even ...
Despite measures to continue operations and preserve pending contracts with libraries, the book distributor Baker & Taylor (B&T), a longtime fixture in the library technology industry, will shutter.
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 ...
Librarian Sondra Eklund spends her time stocking books for the public library system she works for in Virginia. One of her patrons recently asked the library to acquire a children’s book about pets ...
A patron at Orange County (Fla.) Library System takes the wheel of a virtual driving simulator. The technology has helped people with limited access to traditional driver’s education feel more ...
Martha Hickson, a recently retired media specialist who fought censorship at North Hunterdon High School in Annandale, New Jersey, shakes hands with New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (seated) after he ...
Since President Trump retook office on January 20, libraries and librarianship have been assaulted via executive orders and other actions. While the legality of many of these actions is still being ...
The year 2023 was another record-breaker for book bans. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) documented 1,247 attempts to censor library books and other ...