ALA has announced a series of difficult but necessary workforce changes as part of its ongoing ALA Forward initiative.

In this new online column, ALA Senior Endowment Trustee Brett Bonfield will update members about the ALA Endowment Fund ...

Updates from around the world, including Singapore's pop-up Star Wars Library and the reopening of Johannesburg City Library ...

The pop-up Star Wars Library at Singapore's Changi Airport.

October 14, 2025 150 × 100 New York’s largest ICE detention center bans book deliveries ...

October 14, 2025 150 × 100 ALSC and AASL offer Pokémon Club kitsPokemon Club logo ...

Here's how a few notable figures American Libraries covered have reflected on advocacy, diverse stories, and censorship-free ...

Dan Montgomery will start his role as the American Library Association’s (ALA) new executive director on November 10. He will become the first nonlibrarian to serve in that position in the Association ...

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.

The federal government shutdown, which begins today, will have cascading effects across the nation and our economy. For one, it will pause federal programs and slow support for services that many ...

The new Consumer Price Index Manual: Theory, 2025 provides a comprehensive overview of the conceptual issues that drive the methods and practices for constructing Consumer Price Indices (CPIs). It is ...

Former Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden at the 2025 ALA Annual Conference.