Though commonly imagined to be dusty spaces containing rare objects from the distant past, archives are deeply tied to the ...

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

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 ...

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

As PowerPoint finds new life among Gen Zers who share niche slideshows on social media, now libraries are hosting PowerPoint ...

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

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 ...

That’s what science librarian René Tanner—one of the dozens of librarians and experts whose actions American Libraries highlights in our Sustainability Issue—tells us. At a time when climate change ...

With the acceleration of human-driven climate change, libraries are playing an increased role in helping their communities navigate environmental calamities. The downtown public library in Asheville, ...

On January 27, the American Library Association (ALA) announced the top books, digital media, video, and audiobooks for children and young adults—including the Caldecott, Coretta Scott King, Newbery, ...

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 ...