CHICAGO – During the 2025 ALA Annual Conference, held June 26–30 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, American Association of School Librarians (AASL) President Becky Calzada awarded her Presidential ...

Contact: Larra Clark/Paige Wasson 312-280-5043/4393 For Immediate Release June 2002 Mitch Freedman leads American Library Association Mitch Freedman, director of the Westchester Library System (WLS), ...

Amid continued threats to library funding and attacks on the freedom to read, library workers gathered June 26-30 in ...

ALA, its Divisions, Round Tables and Affiliates host many conferences, and in-person and online events to showcase cutting-edge developments in library advocacy, information literacy, and many other ...

Sam Helmick, Community & Access Services Coordinator at Iowa City Public Library, was inaugurated ALA President for 2025-2026 on June 30 at the ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia.

Each year, the Sustainability Round Table Booklist Committee curates an annual list of 10 notable children’s books on nature, conservation, and communities that reflect the mission of SustainRT “to ...

The American Library Association (ALA) has selected Daniel J. Montgomery as its next executive director. He will replace ...

The American Library Association (ALA) applauded the Supreme Court 6-3 decision to uphold the Universal Service Fund (USF).

Description: For decades we have discussed what the libraries of the future would be to have a direct impact on the health and wellbeing of those who work and visit. For decades we have forecasted ...

The Library Research Round Table (LRRT) invites you to attend our Chair's Program. Our theme this year is, "Real Research for Real Librarians", which is highlighted by the presentations from this year ...

The next EDI Assembly meeting will be during the 2021 virtual ALA Annual conference and will give member groups the opportunity to provide updates on their member group activities. EDI Assembly will ...

Do not rely on color to convey meaning: Use words as well as colors to convey meaning to ensure web content is understood as easily without color as it is with color. On availability charts, such as ...