ALA issued a statement on June 6 in response to a ruling that denies a motion to block the Trump administration from ...

ALA returns to Philadelphia for its 2025 Annual Conference (June 26–30), featuring authors, education programs, and ...

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle discusses the music industry copyright lawsuit against the Archive and why he feels ...

Amid headline-grabbing chaos in the federal government, behind-the-scenes work progresses in Congress to secure funding for ...

The “start, stop, change” approach to thinking about the future can show us what we might be missing and where ALA can have ...

Meet Teresa "Teri" Anderson, the new executive director of ALA's Association of College and Research Libraries.

Welcome to the 2019 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries. These shining examples of innovative architectural feats address user needs in ...

Welcome to the 2020 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries. These shining examples of architectural innovation—completed before the COVID-19 ...

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 ...

Welcome to the 2021 Library Design Showcase, American Libraries’ annual celebration of new and renovated libraries that address user needs in unique, interesting, and effective ways. That this year’s ...

When Jessie Carney Smith arrived at Fisk University in Nashville in 1965, she says many people there did not know about black literature. Smith, the dean of the library, says, “Many scholars were told ...